Genus Auxicerus Waterhouse, 1883

Auxicerus Waterhouse, 1883: 387 .

Type species

Auxicerus platyceps Waterhouse, 1883 (by monotypy).

Diagnosis

Male head large, transverse, anterior edge of ocular canthus triangular, projecting beyond anterior edge of head and antennal base. Mandibles horizontal in lateral view, sickle-shaped, basally with three moderately developed teeth, apical half without teeth, acuminate. Mentum strongly transverse, sides rounded, apex widely emarginated. Pronotum transverse, posterior angles obliquely emarginated. Mesosternum with U-shaped concavity. Procoxae only slightly separated, the prosternum not produced into a process posteriorly.