Note

The following key is based on characters of adult beetles. The text was first published in Bell and Bell (1991).

1.      Mentum separated laterally from gena by a cleft (Figure 1). 
        .............................................................2

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1'.     Mentum completely fused laterally to gena (Figure 2). .......3

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2(1).   Minor setae of outer antennal segments in broad bands 
        (Figure 3); pronotum with paramedian grooves narrow, 
        complete; median groove with anterior, posterior pits 
        (Figure 4); pronotum much narrower than elytra; elytral 
        humerus not dentate. .............................Leoglymmiina
        
   
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2'.     Minor setae of outer antennal segments forming subapical 
        ring on each segment (Figure 5); pronotum with rounded basal 
        impressions, without paramedian grooves; median groove 
        linear, not expanded at either end to form anterior, 
        posterior median pits (Figure 6); pronotum broad, almost as 
        wide as elytra; elytral humerus dentate. ......Sloanoglymmiina
        
    
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3(1).   Minor setae of outer antennal segments forming a tuft on 
        ventral side of segment (Figure 7) or minor setae entirely 
        absent (except apical segment) .....................Clinidiina
        
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3'.     Minor setae of each outer antennal segment forming a 
        subapical ring (usually only one seta in width, Figure 8). 
        .............................................................4

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4(3).   Median lobe of head elongate, extending to neck 
        constriction, widely separating temporal lobes (Figure 9). 
        .....................................................Rhysodina
        
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4'.     Median lobe not so elongate, not separating temporal lobes 
        (Figure 10). ................................................5

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5(4).   Median lobe not defined; frontal pit round, porelike; 
        frontal grooves absent or barely suggested (Figure 11) 
        (Africa, South America, New Zealand). ...............Dhysorina
        
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5'.     Median lobe defined by frontal grooves, usually deep (Figure 
        12). ........................................................6

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6(5).   Frontal pit absent; median grooves very shallow, meeting at 
        neck constriction (Figure 13) (South Africa). ......Medisorina
        
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6'.     Frontal pit present, overhung by tip of median lobe; frontal 
        grooves deep in most species; if grooves are very shallow, 
        then frontal pit is large, crescentic (Figure 14). 
        ..................................................Omoglymmiina
        
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Figures 1-3, 5, 7, 8 modified from

Bell, R. T. and J. R. Bell. 1991. The Rhysodini of Australia (Insecta: Coleoptera: Carabidae or Rhysodidae). Annals Of The Carnegie Museum 60(3): 179-210.

Copyright © 1991, The Carnegie Museum. Courtesy Carnegy Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.

Figures 4, 9-12, 14 modified from

Bell, R. T. and J. R. Bell. 1979. Rhysodini of the World part II. Revisions of the smaller genera (Coleoptera: Carabidae or Rhysodidae). Quaestiones Entomologicae 15: 377-446.

Copyright © 1979, R. T. Bell and J. R. Bell.

Figures 6, 13 copyright © 2000, R. T. Bell.