A comparative morphological research was done based on the morphological characters of 21 species from Leptura in this paper. The results indicated that 18 morphological characters, such as the ratio of the lower eye lobe to genae, the relative length of antennae segments, the shape of maxillary palpi apex, prothorax, elytra apex and elytral maculae can be used to identify species in the genus. Meanwhile, the color of elytra and the size of elytral maculae could not be used to identify species from Leptura. In addition, the shape of 7th abdominally sternal apex, the length of antennae and the ratio of the first hind tarsal segment to the second can be used to distinguish the male and the female
Jie-Qun Ren
,
Gui-Qiang Huang
,
Si-Yao He
,
Li Chen
,
Zhi-Ping Liu
. Comparative morphological study on the genus Leptura Linnaeus of China (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Lepturinae)[J]. Zoological Systematics, 2014
, 39(3)
: 395
-410
.
DOI: 10.11865/zs20140306