Dasyscyphon Watts, 2011

Watts, C. H. S., Bradford, T. M. & Cooper, S. J. B., 2021, A new genus, Perplexacara, and new generic placements of species of Australian marsh beetles (Coleoptera: Scirtidae) based on morphology and molecular genetic data, Zootaxa 4927 (4), pp. 539-548 : 542

Dasyscyphon Watts, 2011

Diagnosis. Length 3–5mm. Legs stout. Eyes small, head recumbent, distance from subgenal ridge to bottom of eye a little more than diameter of eye, subantennal groove deep, with supraantennal ridge separating groove from eye, antenna without enlarged scape, antennomeres 2 and 3 not reduced; labial palpi straight (sensu Watts & Zwick (2019)) or nearly so (in Dasyscyphon tasmanicus ); mandible with one strong tooth, molar without small spines; pronotum transverse, anterolateral angles weakly projecting forward; elytral punctures much larger than those on pronotum; pronotal process broad at apex, corresponding notch in mesoventrite well marked; mesoventral process about twice as wide as long; mesepisternum rugose/punctate. Penis stout, simple; trigonium finger-like, as long as parameroids; tegmen without styli (Figs 63, 64 in Watts 2011). Female winged, ventrite 4 without transverse row of long setae; gonocoxites thin, moderately sclerotised, gonostyli thin, very short, apical; prehensor well developed (Figs 43, 44 in Watts (2011). Larvae not known.

Included species. Dasyscyphon hadrostiktos Watts ; D. victoriaensis Watts.