Athousius Reitter 1905

Han, Taeman, Park, Haechul, Lee, Youngbo, Kim, Namjeong, Ôhira, Hitoo, Platia, Giuseppe & Lee, Seunghwan, 2012, Taxonomic Review of the Subtribe Athouina Candèze, 1859 (Coleoptera, Elateridae, Dendrometrinae, Dendrometrini) in Korea, Zootaxa 3591, pp. 47-66 : 48-49

Genus Athousius Reitter 1905

Athousius Reitter, 1905: 13 and 112. Type species: Athous holdereri Reitter, 1900: 159 (Kuku-Nor. Qinghai, China).

Description. Medium, elongate, sub-parallel. Body length 9.5 mm to 11.6 mm in all 11 species. Head with umbilicate punctures; frons depressed in the middle, anterior carination indistinct medially; Antennae reaching or exceeding beyond apex of pronotal hind angles by the 11th antennomeres; 2nd antennomere short and small; 3rd antennomere longer than second, the combined length of 2nd and 3rd segments almost as long as fourth or a little longer; serrated from 3rd or 4th to 10th antennomeres. Pronotum trapezoidal, cylindrical or companiform; hind angles short or elongate, truncate to acute at apex, without carina, with vestige of the basal furrows at posterior margin; pronotal punctures dense, umbilicate. Scutellum slightly elevated longitudinally on disc. Anterior collar of prosternum roundly expanded, bent obliquely; prosternal process simple, narrow. Mesocoxal cavites broadly separated. Legs slender; tarsomeres simple with subtle, fine pubescence.

Remarks. This genus comprises a total of 11 species at present. Five species, A. humeralis ( Miwa, 1927) , A. kitanoi Ôhira, 1972 , A. obakoensis Kishii, 1976 , A. isamutanakai Kishii, 2004 , and A. kaorutanakai Kishii, 2004 , are prsent in Japan. Six species, A. holdereri ( Ritter, 1900) , A. wudanganus Kishii and Jiang, 1995 , A. gansuensis Schimmel and Tarnawski, 2008 , A. jiuzhaigonensis Schimmel and Tarnawski, 2008 , A. muyupingensis Schimmel and Tarnawski, 2008 , and A. shaanxiensis Schimmel and Tarnawski, 2008 , are known from China. A. cambodiensis Fleutiaux, 1918 was replaced to the genus Thacana Fleutiaux, 1936 by Schimmel and Tarnawski (2008). The closely allied genera are Thacana Fleutiaux, 1936 (type species: Thacana cambodiensis (Fleutiaux, 1918)) , Chinathous Kishii and Jiang, 1995 (type species: Chinathous robustus Kishii and Jiang, 1995 ), and Neoathousius Schimmel and Platia, 1991 (Type species: Neoathousius loebli Schimmel and Platia, 1991 ) including 14 species known form northern India to Pakistan.

Distributions. The eastern Palearctic Region and the Indo-Chinese subregion ( Schimmel and Tarnawski 2008).