Lophorrhinides, Perissinotto, Renzo, Clennell, Lynette & Beinhundner, Gerhard, 2019

Perissinotto, Renzo, Clennell, Lynette & Beinhundner, Gerhard, 2019, Lophorrhinidesmuellerae (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae, Cetoniinae): a new genus and species from southern Tanzania, ZooKeys 833, pp. 75-84 : 76

Lophorrhinides gen. n.

Type species

Lophorrhinides muellerae gen. et sp. n.

Diagnosis

The new genus is most closely related to Lophorrhina Westwood, 1842. It differs from this genus mainly by its generally dense pubescence on the dorsal surface (particularly well-developed in male), the fairly globose rather than deplanate body shape, the hemicircular rather than octagonal pronotal shape, the equilateral rather than isosceles triangular shape of its scutellum, the presence of reduced clypeal armature, which is similar in both sexes, and the reduction of the central horn on head frons to a tubercle. A more comprehensive comparison between the two genera is provided in Table 1 below.

Derivatio nominis

The new genus name clearly refers to its close relationship with the sister genus Lophorrhina Westwood, 1842.