Blaberops

Trýzna, Miloš & Baňař, Petr, 2014, A new species of the genus Blaberops (Coleoptera: Anthribidae) from east Madagascar, with a key to species, Zootaxa 3826 (2), pp. 386-392 : 390

Key to Madagascan Blaberops species

1 Pronotum and elytra covered with more or less irregular mixed whitish and brownish setae, without longitudinal stripes. Antennal segments IX-XI as thick as previous segments, not forming distinct antennal club in male................................................................................................... B. macrocerus Jordan, 1904

- Pronotum and elytra with longitudinal stripes. Antennal segments IX-XI distinctly thicker than previous segments, forming thin antennal club in male............................................................................... 2

2 Pronotum and elytra covered with almost concolorous brownish setae, pronotum with three, elytra with two very indistinct yellowish longitudinal stripes. Dorsal transverse carina inconspicuously bisinuate ( Figs. 3–4 )........ B. exilloides Frieser, 2000

- Pronotum and elytra covered with brownish setae, pronotum with seven, each elytron with five distinct whitish rows of longitudinal stripes. Dorsal transverse carina distinctly bisinuate ( Figs. 1–2 )............................. B. korinae sp. nov.

Figures

FIGURES 1 – 4. 1 – 2, Blaberops korinae sp. nov., 1, male holotype (3.38 mm); 2, female allotype (4.37 mm); 3 – 4, Blaberops exilloides Frieser, 2000; 3, male (4.72 mm); 4, female (4.87 mm). All specimens collected in Andasibe village environs.