Hycleus rouxi explained

Hycleus rouxi, is a species of blister beetle found in India, and Sri Lanka.[1] [2]

Description

Body length is about 9.8 to 13.2 mm. Head is 1.3 to 1.8 mm long with coarse deep and dense punctures. Eyes small and reniform. Pronotum moderately coarse, densely punctured. Pronotum covered with yellowish, dense pubescence. Elytra shallow, dense with moderately coarse to fine punctures. There is a continuous or discontinuous basal black band and an apical black band with or without yellow area in middle. Legs has black or reddish-black femora. Tibiae and tarsi are yellowish. Ventrum black and finely punctate. Pubescence very long, very dense, which becomes golden yellow on thorax, and black on abdomen. Male has black antennae which are curved, and clavate. The sixth visible abdominal sternum is deeply emarginate, but in female, it is narrowed to entire apex.[3] [4]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: The National Red List 2012 of Sri Lanka; Conservation Status of the Fauna and Flora . 2021-07-25 . Ministry of Environment in Sri Lanka.
  2. Web site: IRMNG - Hycleus rouxi (Laporte de Castelnau, 1840) . 2021-07-28 . www.irmng.org.
  3. Web site: The Blister Beetle (Meloidae) of Sri Lanka. . 2021-07-26 . Ceylon Journal of Science (Biological Sciences) 13(1&2):203-251.
  4. Salvi . Daniele . Maura . Michela . Pan . Zhao . Bologna . Marco A. . June 2019 . Phylogenetic systematics of Mylabris blister beetles (Coleoptera, Meloidae): a molecular assessment using species trees and total evidence . Cladistics . 35 . 3 . 243–268 . en . 10.1111/cla.12354. 34633710 . 92388770 . free .