Neoaulacoryssus Noonan

Shpeley, Danny, Hunting, Wesley & Ball, George E., 2017, A taxonomic review of the Selenophori group (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Harpalini) in the West Indies, with descriptions of new species and notes about classification and biogeography, ZooKeys 690, pp. 1-195 : 11

Genus Neoaulacoryssus Noonan

Neoaulacoryssus Noonan, (1985a: 37). TYPE SPECIES: Selenophorus speciosus Dejean, 1829: 117-118 (designation by Noonan 1985a: 37).- Lorenz 1998: 355.- Lorenz 2005: 376.

Recognition.

Both Neoaulacoryssus and Athrostictus are the only New World selenophorine genera whose species have pubescence on the elytral disc. In Neoaulacoryssus the elytral punctures are elongated, in places confluent and chain-like, with extremely short pubescence, length approximately half or less the width of the elongated punctures. In Athrostictus , the elytral punctures are round with long pubescence, length approximately 3 or more times the width of the round punctures.

Included species.

Two species known; only one, N. cupripennis (Gory), is recorded in the West Indies.