Dendropaemon (Titthopaemon) Génier & Arnaud, 2016

François Génier & Patrick Arnaud, 2016, Dendropaemon Perty, 1830: taxonomy, systematics and phylogeny of the morphologically most derived phanaeine genus (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae, Scarabaeinae, Phanaeini), Zootaxa 4099 (1) : 81

Dendropaemon (Titthopaemon) Génier & Arnaud , new subgenus

Type species: Dendropaemon denticollis Felsche, 1909 ; monotypy.

Description. Size small. Habitus elongated, parallel sided; with metallic sheen on head, pronotum and elytra. Body strongly compressed dorsoventrally. Clypeal edge distinctly emarginate on external side of each clypeal tooth; clypeal teeth acutely angular. Pronotum with fine punctures on disc; anterior margin flat lateral to eyes, flat surface produced into a sharp tubercle laterally; lateral fossae rounded and simple. Elytral base lacking margin. Meso and metatarsi similar in shape, three segmented, first segment approximately two times as long as wide at apex, last segment spiniformly produced internally, with setae apically.

Etymology. “ Titthos ” (nipple, teat) a Greek name pertaining to the tubercle of the pronotal anterior margin which is presenting the aspect of a nipple in the species included in the subgenus, with the suffix “paemon” to keep the naming scheme similar to the genus. Gender masculine.