Taxon classification Animalia Coleoptera Hydraenidae

Subgenus Ochthebius Leach, 1815 Figs 22, 27, 29, 31, 37

Ochthebius Leach, 1815: 95. Type species: Helophorus marinus Paykull, 1798. See Jäch and Skale (2015) for more detailed synonymy and references.

Diagnosis.

Lateral margin of pronotum (Figs 21, 30, 37, 45) with hyaline membranous cuticula. Marginal elytral ridge (Fig. 39) disappearing posteriorly. Pedicel (Fig. 19, 35) not enlarged distally (Hansen 1987; Jäch 1992).