Sternocampsus Fleutiaux, 1927

Liu, Zhen & Jiang, Shi-hong, 2019, The genus Sternocampsus Fleutiaux, 1927 (Coleoptera, Elateridae, Oxynopterinae), with description of a new species from South China, ZooKeys 852, pp. 111-124 : 111

Sternocampsus Fleutiaux, 1927

Sternocampsus Fleutiaux, 1927: 104; Jiang 1993: 136; Jiang and Wang 1999: 34; Cate et al. 2007: 94.

Type species.

Sternocampsus villosus Fleutiaux, 1927, by monotypy.

Diagnosis.

Head narrow compared to pronotum (ratio of head width between eyes to pronotum width across hind angles varied from 1/5 to 1/6). Frons flattened medially to level of labrum, frontal carina incomplete medially; mandibles arched, protruding. Antenna of both sexes, exceeding hind angles of pronotum, compressed, and serrate from 3rd to 10th antennomeres. Pronotum narrowed anteriorly, both sides distinctly sinuate, strongly flanged laterally, weakly convex medio-longitudinally; hind angles divergent, acute, apex recurved. Suture between meso- and metaventrite weak. Elytra attenuate, apically with a spine, surface almost smooth, with slightly irregular furrows posteriorly. Penis narrowed to apex, parameres with hook-like angles apically.

Distribution.

Malaysia (Pahang), China (Guangdong, Guangxi, Hunan, Fujian) (Fig. 9).