Eccoptopterus Motschulsky, 1863

Eccoptopterus Motschulsky, 1863: 515.

Platydactylus Eichhoff, 1886: 25. Preoccupied by Goldfuss, 1820.

Eurydactylus Hagedorn, 1909: 733. (new name for Platydactylus Eichhoff, 1866 nec. Goldfuss 1820; preoccupied by Laferté-Sénectère, 1851). Synonymy: Hagedorn 1910: 110.

Type species.

Eccoptopterus sexspinosus Motschulsky, 1863 = Scolytus spinosus Olivier, 1800 .

Diagnosis.

1.70-5.90 mm, stout, 1.94-2.3 × as long as wide; pronotum short and round, robust, broader and larger than elytra; pronotal anterior margin armed with a pair of prominently protruding denticles; pronotal base bearing a dense tuft of setae; elytra short, excavated, with denticles around its margins; declivity impressed, the impressed areas extending nearly to elytral base; metatibiae conspicuously enlarged and flattened.