Atractocerus Palisot de Beauvois, 1801

Lawrence, John F., 2020, The Australian Lymexylidae (Coleoptera: Tenerionoidea) with one new genus and two genera new to Australia, Zootaxa 4895 (2), pp. 211-238 : 225

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4895.2.3
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:77117CFB-AD8E-4066-819F-FA81D3D589B7
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4361846
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scientific name	Atractocerus Palisot de Beauvois, 1801
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Atractocerus Palisot de Beauvois, 1801 View in CoL View at ENA

Atractocerus Palisot de Beauvois, 1801: 3 View in CoL .

Type species: Atractocerus necydaloides Palisot de Beauvois (monotypy) (= Necydalis brevicornis Linnaeus, 1766 View in CoL ).

Diagnosis. Species of Atractocerus in the strict sense are characterised by the large, elongate eyes, elongate, horizontal head, which is narrower than the pronotum, and very short elytra.

Distribution. At least ten species of Atractocerus have been described from California to Brazil, Africa, Madagascar, India, Sri Lanka, Southeast Asia, Indonesia and northwestern Australia, but it is not certain that all of these species are congeneric. According to Kurasawa (1985), A. brevicornis (Linnaeus) , A. reversus Walker and A. brasiliensis Lepeletier & Audinet-Serville belong to this genus, and A. crassicornis Clark should be added to this list.