Genus Ponyalis Fairmaire, 1899

Diagnosis.

Body length 9.5–15.0 mm, brown to black, pronotum red or black, elytra uniformly red but sometimes black at margins. Head small, hemispherical eyes prominent. Antennae flabellate in males, while serrate in females; antennomere I abruptly widened near base and nearly globular or flattened dorsally, II very short, III nearly triangular, IV – X triangular to lamellate, IX slender. Pronotum subquadrate, with all margins almost straight. Elytra flat to weakly convex, subparallel-sided, usually wider in female than male; each elytron with four primary and five secondary longitudinal and many transverse costae, elytral cells mostly squared, sometimes strongly transverse. Male genitalia robust, phallus long and present with a pair of lateral thorns apically, more or less projected distad at apical margin, internal sac usually invaginated, with only apex exposed, which is a slender or thorn-shaped tube, sometimes hardly visible.

Included species.

P. alternata (Pic, 1927), P. cincinnatus Kazantsev, 2002, P. chifengleei Kazantsev, 2002, P. daucinus Kazantsev, 2002, P. dolosa (Kleine, 1924), P. fukiensis (Bocak, 1999), P. gestroi Pic, 1912, P. gracilis (Bocak, 1999), P. himalejica (Bourgeois, 1885), P. ishigakiana (Nakane, 1961), P. klapperichi (Bocak, 1999), P. laticornis Fairmaire, 1899, P. nigrohumeralis (Pic, 1938), P. oshimana (Nakane, 1961), P. quadricollis (Kiesenwetter, 1874), P. sichuanensis (Bocak, 1999), P. tryznai (Bocak, 1999), P. variabilis Li, Pang & Bocak, 2015 ., P. longicornis sp. nov., P. truncata sp. nov., P. dabieshanensis sp. nov., P. hainanensis sp. nov., P. quadricollimima sp. nov., P. zhejiangensis sp. nov.

Distribution

(Fig. 1). China (Henan, Shaanxi, Gansu, Anhui, Zhejiang, Hunan, Jiangxi, Hubei, Fujian, Guangdong, Hainan, Guangxi, Chongqing, Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan, Xizang), Korea, Japan, Vietnam, Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, India.

Key to the males of Ponyalis