Neodiapterna Dellacasa 1986

Genus Neodiapterna Dellacasa, 1986 Diagnosis Length 7.0–9.0 mm. Body strongly convex, glabrous dorsally, piceous, elytra testaceous posteriorly. Head with moderate punctures, frontoclypeal suture weakly impressed, faint; clypeus sinuate. Pronotum without lateral and posterior marginal line, with punctures of two sizes. Mesoscutellum large, almost 1/3 the length of elytral suture. Protibia punctate dorsally, meso- and metatibiae with strong set of transverse carinae; metatibiae apically fringed by setae of similar sizes. Remarks Neodiapterna comprises two species. Neodiapterna erichsoni is distributed across Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay (Dellacasa & Dellacasa 1997). Neodiapterna tognoni Dellacasa & Dellacasa, 1997 is only known from Bolivia (Dellacasa & Dellacasa 1997). A key for the species can be found in Dellacasa & Dellacasa (1997).