Taxon classification Animalia Coleoptera Scarabaeidae

Atrichelaphinis (Heterelaphinis) Antoine, 2002

Type species.

Elaphinis quadripunctata Lansberge, 1882

Subgeneric characters.

Clypeus longer than wide with the apex slightly sinuous; anterior pronotal border tuberculate or tectiform, but minimally so in female; protibiae bidentate, with teeth normally separated; metatibial apical spurs strongly enlarged (spatuliform) in female; parameres of aedeagus fused with apex modified (in dorsal view), with protrusion in the middle deeply incised or not, apex laterally modified or not. Three species are currently included in this subgenus.