Chrysina mercedesae, 2022

Barria, Manuel, 2022, A new species of Chrysina Kirby, 1828 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Rutelinae: Rutelini) from Ecuador and inclusion into proposed veraguana species-group, Revista Chilena de Entomología (Rev. Chil. Entomol.) 48 (2), pp. 313-319 : 318-319

Key to species of the veraguana species-group

1. Abdominal sternites with metallic aspect………………..……………………………….... 2

1’. Abdominal sternites without metallic aspect, greenish color as dorsally, with two dentiform projections oriented ventrally and to the right, left projection more robust and less acute than right………...…………………………… Chrysina galbina Hawks, 2017

2. Sternites metallic green with silvery reflections, mesosternum setigerous, mesosternal process slightly away from the body, male parameres with three projections, one short central dentiform process and two medians lateral dentiform processes, from Panama ………….........................................……………… Chrysina veraguana (Ohaus, 1922)

2’. Sternites matte metallic green with pinkish reflections, mesosternum poorly setigerous, mesosternal process directed forward, with two recurved and divergent dentiform processes becoming progressively more robust apically, ventral plates protruding beyond parameres, from Ecuador and ¿ Colombia?...... C. mercedesae Barria , new species