Gauromaia Pascoe, 1866

Telnov, Dmitry & Ruzzier, Enrico, 2024, A redefinition of Gauromaia Pascoe, 1866 (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae: Stenochiinae), Zootaxa 5551 (3), pp. 531-555 : 536

Gauromaia Pascoe, 1866 s. str.

= Cephaleucyrtus Pic, 1923

Pascoe (1866: 473). Type species Gauromaia dives Pascoe, 1866 (monotypy).

Pic (1923a: 22). Type species Cephaleucyrtus viridicollis Pic, 1923 (monotypy).

Synonymy: Gebien (1941: 1144).

Diagnosis of the genus Gauromaia in the new sense. Body generally subrectangular in dorsal view, elytra slightly convex in dorsal aspect, general shape of head in dorsal view clearly transverse (excluding the cranial neck), frontoepistomal suture present but not deeply impressed, inner edge of compound eye located in a straight line with point where frontoepistomal suture joins anterolateral margin of head, ocular sulcus present and located in eye proximity, varying substantially among taxa, antenna short (not extending beyond mesocoxa), antennal club of five or six dorso-ventrally flattened antennomeres, antennomeres constituting club asymmetrical, indentation pointing anteriad (terminal antennomere differently shaped, nearly symmetrical, elliptical), posterior edge of pronotum always margined, maximum width of pronotum always shorter than maximum combined width of elytra, scutellar shield always exposed, parameres fused, converging apically, lacking modifications, front femora without any indentation, third and fourth exposed ventrites with distinct distal membrane, last exposed abdominal ventrite is not margined apically, species fully winged, brachypterous or apterous, three to four basal tarsomeres short, terminal tarsomere slightly shorter than combined length of previous tarsomeres, all tarsomeres except terminal one bearing ventral pad of dense pale tomentum. Sexual dimorphism is weak, tibiae slightly more curved in males than in females.

Distribution. Himalayas (Kashmir, Nepal), mainland SE Asia, Taiwan, Greater Sunda Islands (Borneo, Java, Sulawesi, Sumatra) and satellites including Banggi, Nias, Sinabang and Riau islands, Philippine Archipelago (Basilan, Luzon, Mindanao, Mindoro), ‘Indes Meridionales’. Five species, one each from Indonesia and Zanzibar and three from Thailand are likely not Gauromaia .