Atrocrates evestigator

Iwan, Dariusz, 2016, Species groups in the genus Atrocrates Koch, 1956 (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae: Pedinini), Zootaxa 4175 (6), pp. 571-587 : 574

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4175.6.5
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scientific name	Atrocrates evestigator
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E. evestigator -group

Diagnostic characters. Mid part of mentum narrowed anteriad; pronotal sides narrowed anteriad; male mid tibiae slightly widened, with small, preapical denticle ( Figs 23–26 View FIGURES 23 – 30 ).

Species composition. A. evestigator Iwan, 1998 ; A. simius Mulsant et Rey, 1853 ; A. striatus (Quensel, 1806) ; A. sinuosus Iwan, 1998 .

Distribution ( Fig. 78 View FIGURES 74 – 81 ).

References

Iwan, D. (1998) Revision of the trigonopoid Platynotina from South Africa. Part IV. Genus Atrocrates Koch, 1956 (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae: Platynotini). Genus, 9, 275 - 330.

Mulsant, E. & Rey, C. (1853) Essai d'une division des derniers Melasomes. Pedinites. Les Trigonopaires. Memoires de l'Academie des Sciences, belles-lettres et Arts de Lyon, 3, 20 - 61.

FIGURES 23 – 30. Atrocrates striatus (Quensel, 1806), male (23 – 26). A. occultator Iwan, 1998, male (27 – 30). Mentum (23, 27). Pronotum (24, 28). Mid tibia, ventral (25, 30). Mid tibia, inside (26). Pronotal posteriori angle and elytral humerus (29).