Tricholapita, Gomez-Zurita and Cardoso, Gomez-Zurita and Cardoso, 2020

Gómez-Zurita, Jesús, Platania, Leonardo & Cardoso, Anabela, 2020, A new species of the genus Tricholapita nom. nov. and stat. nov. (Coleoptera Chrysomelidae, Eumolpinae) from New Caledonia, Zootaxa 4857 (1), pp. 85-94 : 93

The identification key of Platania et al. (2020) can be modified to include the females of the new species as follows:

19. Three apical antennomeres pale......................................................................... 20

-. Two apical antennomeres pale........................................................................... 21

20. Tip of apical antennomere dark; basal half of elytra closely pubescent with abundant erect dark setae................................................................................................ T. gaea ( Gómez-Zurita, 2014)

-. Tip of apical antennomere not darkened; basal half of elytra with sparse pubescence and very few erect dark setae................................................................................................. T. reidi sp. nov.

21. Characteristic tuft of dark and pale straight setae directed posteriorly near sutural angle; pubescence on pronotum more or less evenly distributed................................................................. T. mars (Samuelson, 2010)

-. Setae around sutural angle disheveled, including setae directed posteriorly, without forming a conspicuous feature; areas on anterior half of pronotum and on disc nearly glabrous.................... T. oceanica ( Platania and Gómez-Zurita, 2020)