Lanelater Arnett

Akhter, Muhammad Atique, Drumont, Alain, Rizvi, Syed Anser & Ahmed, Zubair, 2012, Contribution to the knowledge of Agrypninae (Coleoptera: Elateridae) with description of new species and new records from Pakistan, Zootaxa 3223, pp. 40-54 : 44

Key to the species of the genus Lanelater Arnett of Pakistan

1 Antennae reaching the middle of pronotum................................................................. 2

- Antennae reaching the apexes of hind angle of pronotum...................................................... 3

2 Prescutelar tubercle punctured, lateral carina up to middle of pronotum.......................... L. bartoni (Fleutiaux)

- Prescutelar tubercle smooth and shiny, lateral carina up to apex of pronotum..................... .. L. fuscipes (Fabricius)

3 3rd antennomere equal to 4th antennomere, apical margin of parameres straight.................. L. punjabensis Platia et al.

- 3rd antennomere not equal to 4th antennomere, apical margin of parameres truncate.................................. 4

4 Elytral striae shallowly punctured in all surface, pronotum without depressions.................. L. bipunctatus (Candèze)

- Elytral striae indistinct of all surface, pronotum with two depressions near the basal margin.................................................................................................... L. scutopentagonus Va t s & K a shy ap