Dromoceryx Schmidt-Goebel, 1846

Hunting, Wesley & Yang, Man-Miao, 2018, A new genus record and species of Dromoceryx Schmidt-Goebel, 1846 (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Lebiini) from Taiwan, with a revised key to species, ZooKeys 803, pp. 121-130 : 121

Genus Dromoceryx Schmidt-Goebel, 1846

Type species.

Dromoceryx dorsalis Schmidt-Goebel, 1846: 40-41. Atkinson 1890: 75; Andrewes 1923: 18; Mateu 1984: 404; Lorenz 2005: 478.

Taxonomic note.

The type of D. dorsalis is in the National Museum of Natural History (NMPC), Prague, Czech Republic. According to Andrewes (1923) and Mateu (1984), it is a single specimen with no antennae or palpi and is in otherwise poor condition.

Recognition.

This genus is distinguished from others by the following combination of characters: Broad and somewhat flattened body. Small size: 3.5-4.5 mm. Glossal sclerite broad, with narrow latero-apical lobes, four setae visible at apex, two longer seta more laterally and two shorter setae more medially. Mentum with single shallow tooth. Head and pronotum brunneous to piceous, elytral disc testaceous with black macula. Gonocoxite 2 slightly spatulate, broadly rounded at apex; two lateral ensiform setae, one on each side, seta-like as opposed to spine-like, two nematiform setae. For a detailed account and figures of the male and female genitalia of the already described species of Dromoceryx , see Mateu (1984).