Dirrhagofarsus Fleutiaux, 1935

Otto, Robert L., 2022, A new species and new records for two other exotic species of Dirrhagofarsus Fleutiaux, 1935 (Coleoptera: Eucnemidae: Melasinae: Dirhagini) in the United States, Insecta Mundi 2022 (932), pp. 1-15 : 4

Genus Dirrhagofarsus Fleutiaux, 1935

(= Attenuorhagus Olexa, 1975 )

Diagnosis. Apical margin of frontoclypeal region fairly evenly rounded and more than twice as wide as the distance between antennal sockets; vertex with transverse rows of dense setae; frons with pair of longitudinal carinae near compound eyes; hypomeron with notosternal antennal grooves; serrate antennae; male protarsomere I simple, without sex combs; metacoxal plates medially 3.0–6.0 times wider than laterally; last visible ventrite produced; simple tarsal claws; lateral surfaces of mesothoracic and metathoracic tibiae with setae only; male aedeagus dorsoventrally compressed; with secondary lateral lobes; lateral lobes simple, apices directed mediad; median lobe simple, deeply and widely bifurcate apically; flagellum complex and tubular ( Otto 2016; Seung et al. 2018).