Oryssomus Mulsant, 1850

Oryssomus Mulsant, 1850: 939 (original description); Crotch, 1874: 292 (systematic); Chapuis, 1876: 218 (systematic); Gorham, 1895: 210 (systematic); Casey, 1899: 132 (systematic); Korschefsky, 1931: 176 (catalogue); Blackwelder, 1945 (checklist); Gordon, 1974: 146 (revision), 1987: 35 (catalogue); Almeida & Lima, 1995: 702 –709 (systematic).

Type species: Oryssomus subterminatus Mulsant, 1850, by monotypy.

Diagnosis. Oryssomini with antenna 10-segmented; all tibiae slender, unmodified; postcoxal line complete; female genitalia with genital plate elongate; spermatheca simple, curved. For more details see Gordon (1974).