Lata species group Adult diagnosis. The Cycadophila (Cycadophila) lata species group is distinguished from other members of Cycadophila by color: body reddish-brown with dark mark along elytral suture; head dorsal surface flattened in profile; supraocular stria present, extending full length of eye; maxillary palpi normal in length, not more than 2× longer than labial palpi; ventral interocular distance <1/3 head width; submental-gular suture primarily flattened, medially with weak, darkened transverse depression with row of setose punctures; pronotal anterior angles rounded, surface near anterior angle convex; lateral carinae evenly arched most of length, basally appearing evenly sinuate; pronotal lateral carina thin in lateral view, with single row of setose punctuation on marginal surface; prosternal process narrow (<1/2 width of profemur), rounded at apex, apex depressed, in lateral view convex; protibia dilated distally, with fringe of stout setae along apical margin and a few at extreme apical-lateral margins; coxal line behind mesocoxae without punctures; male genitalia with tegmen strongly twisted basally, penile strut 3× length of median lobe; sexual dimorphism present with males having strongly dilated pro- and mesotibiae and femora. Remarks. This species group contains three species that are similar in morphology. Current molecular data indicate the available specimens of this group to be part of a complex of species. Here we only present accounts of the two described species and one new species belonging to this group. Further work is underway to help resolve this complex.

Published as part of Skelley, Paul, Xu, Guang, Tang, William, Lindström, Anders J., Marler, Thomas, Khuraijam, Jibankumar Singh, Singh, Rita & Rich, Stephen, 2017, Review of Cycadophila Xu, Tang & Skelley (Coleoptera: Erotylidae: Pharaxonothinae) inhabiting Cycas (Cycadaceae) in Asia, with descriptions of a new subgenus and thirteen new species, pp. 1-63 in Zootaxa 4267 (1) on page 15, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.575641