Dendropaemon (Dendropaemon) Perty, 1830

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) : 23

Dendropaemon (Dendropaemon) Perty, 1830

Type species: Eurysternus piceus Perty, 1830 ; subsequent designation by Blut (1939: 267).

Diagnosis. Size small to large. Habitus rectangular in dorsal view, parallel sided; with metallic sheen on head, pronotum and elytra. Body moderately compressed dorsoventrally. Clypeal edge acutely angularly emarginate on external side of each clypeal tooth; clypeal teeth acutely angular to ogival. Pronotum with some fine to coarse punctures on disc; anterior margin flat lateral to eyes; lateral fossae bordered laterally by a blunt carina and anteriorly by a blunt tubercle. Elytral marginate. Meso and metatarsi similar in shape, three segmented, first segment approximately as long as wide at apex, last segment spiniformly produced internally, with setae apically.