Description of Genus Liprus

Guide to Palearctic Flea Beetle Genera
(Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Alticinae)

Liprus Motschulsky

Liprus nuchalis
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Liprus Motschulsky, 1859 (1860):26 (type species L. punctatostriatus Motschulsky, 1859 (1860), Far East, by monotypy). - Heikertinger, 1950:49. - Chûjô & Kimoto, 1960:8. - Gressitt & Kimoto, 1963:878. - Konstantinov & Vandenberg, 1996:276.

Crepidomorpha Fleischer, 1916:222 (type species Crepidodera (Crepidomorpha) carinulata Fleischner, 1916, Japan, by monotypy, as subgenus of Crepidodera ). - Heikertinger, 1924:40. - Chûjô & Kimoto, 1960:8 (synonymized).

Diagnosis: Body medium sized, more or less flat. Color yellow, light brown or brown.
Head oval, more or less convex from lateral view. Frontal ridge very short, comparatively wide and concave. Anterior margin of head capsule with high, transverse ridge. Antennal calli longitudinal, raised, triangular, broadly connected to each other, well delineated from vertex by deep, almost linear transverse furrow. Anterior margins of antennal calli situated between antennal sockets. Orbital line well developed. Eye small. Interantennal space wider than diameter of antennal socket and almost as wide as transverse diameter of eye. Antenna 11-segmented, filiform.
Pronotum more or less narrow and flat with transverse and longitudinal furrows basally. Procoxal cavity almost closed behind. Intercoxal prosternal process very narrow; procoxae contiguous. Mesosternum long and narrow.
Elytron elongate, with well developed humeral callus. Elytral punctures arranged in striae; interspaces more or less narrow, flat. Epipleuron subhorizontal, almost reaching elytral apex.
Metafemur slightly swollen. Metatibia cylindrical, slightly expanded apically; apex flattened dorsally. Metatarsus inserted apically. First metatarsal segment more or less short, slightly shorter than following two segments combined.


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