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Pleganophorus Hampe 1855

Year: 2026

Type: article

Abstract: GenusPleganophorusHampe, 1855 Pleganophorus Hampe, 1855: 97. Description (modified from Strohecker 1953). Body 3.1-3.5 mm long; brown; weakly convex. Dorsal clothed with minute hairs; densely and coarsely punctate. Antenna 4 - segmented, shorter than head and thorax together; terminal antennomeres greatly elongated, distinctly longer than the first three segmented combined; reniform in male and allantoiform in female. Pronotum distinctly narrowed, sides gradually widened apically, median groove absent; anterior angles rounded; posterior angles produced as heavy spines, and inner side of each bears a deep fovea basally. Prosternal process narrowly separates front coxae. Elytra strongly elongate, posteriorly tapering, separately rounded at apex; humeri weakly prominent. Tarsal formula 4-4 - 4 in both sexes. Diagnosis. The Pleganophorus resembles two other genera of Pleganophorinae in appearance. However, the pronotum with the posterior angles developed into long, sharp spines can separate it from Dadocerus and Trochoideus (Strohecker 1953).

Parent work: Notes on the subfamily Pleganophorinae, with the description of a new species of the genus Trochoideus Westwood, 1833 (Coleoptera, Endomychidae) from China

DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.22115082

Authors: Li, Pan-Pan, Bai, Ming, Chang, Ling-Xiao

Institutions: Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Zoology

Language: English

Topic: Coleoptera Taxonomy and Distribution

Subfield: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

Field: Agricultural and Biological Sciences

Domain: Life Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W7204238208

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