Abstract: Key to species of Xylodes, subgenus Diegous from Madagascar (See also Bellés 1988a) 1 Pronotum longer than wide............................................................................. 2 - Pronotum transverse................................................................................... 4 2 Antennae robust, antennomeres VIII–X transverse (only female known, Fig. 10)............. X. (D.) elongatus (Pic, 1896) - Antennae slender, all antennomeres longer than wide......................................................... 3 3 Pronotum with a deep excavation around the discal part. Aedeagus with simple slender and filiform parameres, median lobe increasing towards the apex (Figs 11, 16)....................................... X. (D.) excavaticollis Bellés, 1987 - Pronotum without a deep excavation around the discal part.Aedeagus with very complex parameres, showing acute prolongations on the inner side, median lobe rounded at the apex (Figs 13, 18)........................... X. (D.) pauliani (Pic, 1953) 4 ... : Published as part of Zahradník, Petr, Trýzna, Miloš & Razafindranaivo, Victor, 2023, A new species of Xylodes Waterhouse from Madagascar, with a key to the genera of the tribe Ptinini from Madagascar, Mascarenes and adjacent regions, and a key to species of Xylodes, subgenus Diegous (Coleoptera: Ptinidae), pp. 93-105 in Zootaxa 5330 (1) on page 103, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5330.1.4, http://zenodo.org/record/8249187 ...
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