Ripiphoridae, Laporte, 1840

Barahona-Segovia, Rodrigo M., Puiggros, Andrés, Varela-Varela, Ricardo A., Valdés-Guzmán, Vicente, Ramírez-Cuadros, Andrés & Pañinao-Monsálvez, Laura, 2022, Updated catalog of the Chilean wedge-shaped beetles (Coleoptera: Ripiphoridae) with the first records of Macrosiagon flavipennis (LeConte) in Chile, Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia 62, pp. 1-9 : 2

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11606/1807-0205/2022.62.043

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7175044

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/94727505-FFFE-FFBE-A05C-FF00C9DDF782

treatment provided by

Felipe

scientific name

Ripiphoridae
status

 

Key to Chilean Ripiphoridae View in CoL View at ENA species

1. Body length exceeds 1 cm ( Figs. 1-2 View Figures 1-6 ); pronotum entirely black with medial protuberance distally acuminate at posterior margin; elytra black with a transverse yellow stripe at anterior third ( Figs.1-4 View Figures 1-6 )......... .......................................................... Macrosiagon flavipennis LeConte

— Total body length, less than 1 cm; pronotum brownish-reddish with black marks, without medial protuberance in the posterior margin; elytra generally reddish or brownish-red with some species with dark areas on humeral and apical parts of elytra........................................2

2. Frons and vertex strongly crenulate; vertex mostly pilose; elytra short, covering 1/3 of the total length of abdomen, most part of wings not completely covered by elytra; fore and middle legs completely brownish-red ( Figs.11-12 View Figures 11-12 )................. Ripiphorus valdivianus (Philippi)

— Frons and vertex scarcely crenulate or smooth; vertex scarcely pilose or glabrous; abdomen and wings almost entirely covered by elytra; fore and middle legs mostly black.............................................................3

3. Elytra uniformly brownish-red except humeral part; basal part of metatibiae and first tarsomere of metatarsus generally brownish-red ( Figs.7-9 View Figures7-10 )............................................ Macrosiagon gayi (Gerstaecker)

— Elytra mostly brownish-red, with individuals ranging from black markings on apical and basal area to completely yellow-orange; legs mostly brownish ................................... Macrosiagon vittata (Erichson)

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Ripiphoridae

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