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Idgia
Sign in to saveIdgia is a genus of beetles in the family Prionoceridae. They are distributed within the Old World tropics. These elongated beetles have soft elytra. Males have a comb on the inner edge of the distal tarsal segment of the foreleg.
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 47
- With media
- 9
- Family
- Prionoceridae
- Collections
- SAM, NHMUK
- Recorded in
- South Africa, Philippines, Zimbabwe, Kenya, Zambia, Sierra Leone, Laos
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Idgia is a genus of beetles in the family Prionoceridae. They are distributed within the Old World tropics. These elongated beetles have soft elytra. Males have a comb on the inner edge of the distal tarsal segment of the foreleg.
Species that have been described in the genus include: I. abdominalis I. abyssinica I. amplipennis I. andrewesi I. angustata I. apicalis I. apicata I. arabica I. ardesica I. assimilis I. asirensis I. atricornis I. bagorensis I. bakeri I. belli I. bimaculata I. caeruliventris I. cavilabris I. chloroptera I. cincta I. confusa I. costata I. costulata I. curticeps I. cyanea I. cyanocephala I. cyanipennis I. cyanura I. dasytoides I. decolor I. deusta I. dichroa I. dimelaena I. dimidiata I. diversiceps I. dohertyi I. dubia I. elongaticeps I. femorata I. flavibuccis I. flavicollis I. flavirostris I. flavithorax I. flavilabris I. flavolimbata I. foveifrons I. fruhstorferi I. fulvicollis I. geniculata I. gorhami I. grandis I. granulipennis I. griseolineata I. haemorrhoidalis I. hoffmanni I. huegeli I. humeralifer I. incerta I. indicola I. iriomoteana I. javana I. laticornis I. lineata I. longicollis I. longipalpis I. longipes I. longissima I. luteipes I. luzonica I. melanocephala I. maculicornis I. maculiventris I. maindroni I. major I. marginata I. mindanaosa I. melanura I. minuta I. moupinensis I. nilgirica I. nitida I. obscurimembris I. oculata I. oedemeroides I. opacipennis I. pallidicolor I. parlicularipes I. particularicornis I. plectrophora I. revoili I. rostrifera I. rouyeri I. semitecta I. stamperi I. subparallela I. terminata I. testaceipes I. thibetana I. uncigera I. ungulata I. varicornis I. varipes I. virescens I. viridivittata
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