Atrichelaphinis s. l. Kraatz, 1898

Rojkoff, Sebastien & Perissinotto, Renzo, 2015, Review of the genera Anelaphinis Kolbe, 1892 and Atrichelaphinis Kraatz, 1898 (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae, Cetoniinae), ZooKeys 482, pp. 91-142 : 97-98

Taxon classification Animalia Coleoptera Scarabaeidae

Atrichelaphinis s. l. Kraatz, 1898

Generic characters.

Clypeus rectangular; antennal club longer in male than in female; pronotum sub-octogonal, anterior border convex with or without projection, posterior border largely convex, more or less bisinuate, posterior angles not acute; scutellum longer than wide, apex from more or less acute to slightly dull; elytra tricostate; mesosternal apophysis tansverse; male abdomen concave with a median depression; protibia bi- or tridentate, meso- and metatibias with transverse carina on external side, metatibia widened and thickened at apex; aedeagus with parameres fused, except at apex, internal sac without sclerite; female genitalia (Figure 2) exhibiting regression of tergite and retention of epipleurite IX as dorsopleurite, showing articulation on simplified gonopod, with gonopod composed of coxosubcoxite IX made of partial fusion of coxite and subcoxite.