Sporetus Bates, 1864

(Figs. 8 – 9)

Sporetus Bates, 1864: 54 .

Type species — Sporetus seminalis Bates, 1864 (subsequent designation, Monné, 2012: 74).

Sporetus (Chaetissus) Bates, 1864: 54; Thomson, 1864: 323 (syn.).

Type species — Sporetus porcinus Bates, 1864 (monotypy).

Diagnosis. Antennae in males much longer than the body; prothorax without lateral tubercles or with tubercles reduced to an obtuse protuberance, the sides subparallel; pronotum without tubercles; elytra without centrobasal crest or longitudinal carina; mesoventral process as wide as three-fourths of a mesocoxa. Number of species currently included: 14.