Dendropaemon (Onthoecus) Lacordaire, 1856

François Génier & Patrick Arnaud, 2016, Dendropaemon Perty, 1830: taxonomy, systematics and phylogeny of the morphologically most derived phanaeine genus (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae, Scarabaeinae, Phanaeini), Zootaxa 4099 (1) : 55

Dendropaemon (Onthoecus) Lacordaire, 1856

Onthoecus Dejean 1833 , Cat. Col. Coll. Dejean: 140 (nomen nudum)

Onthoecus Dejean 1836 , Cat. Col. Coll. Dejean, 3 ed.: 140 (nomen nudum) Onthoecus Agassiz 1846 , Nom. Zool.: 259 (nomen nudum)

Onthoecus Lacordaire 1856 , Hist. Nat . Ins. III: 103 (original description) Onthoecus Burmeister 1861 , Berl. Ent. Zeit. 5: 56 (mentioned as synonym) Onthoecus Harold 1896 , Cat. Col. IV: 1020 (mentioned as synonym)

Onthoecus Edmonds 1972 , Univ. Kansas Sc. Bull. 49: 850 (type designation)

Type species: Dendropaemon amyntas Harold, 1868 [= Dendropaemon (Onthoecus) attalus Génier & Arnaud , nomen novum]; subsequent designation by Edmonds (1972: 850).

Diagnosis. Size moderate to large. Habitus rectangular in dorsal view, parallel sided; with metallic sheen on head, pronotum and elytra. Body moderately compressed dorsoventrally. Clypeal edge emarginate or not on external side of each clypeal tooth; clypeal teeth triangular. Pronotum with moderate punctures on disc, punctures larger and more or less confluent and forming rugulae anteriorly; anterior margin flat lateral to eyes; lateral fossae more or less oval, simple. Elytral base lacking margin. Meso and metatarsi slightly dissimilar in shape, three segmented, first segment as long as to twice as long as wide at apex, last segment spiniform, lacking setae apically.