Daploeuros 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

Daploeuros Watts, 2011

Diagnosis. Length 6–11mm. Eyes small, 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, subantennal groove deep, with supraantennal ridge separating groove from eye, subgenal ridge without buttonhole; antenna without enlarged scape, antennomeres 2 & 3 not reduced; labial palpi straight (sensu Watts & Zwick 2019); mandible with one strong tooth, molar without small spines; pronotum transverse, anterolateral angles strongly produced forward; pronotal process broad at apex, corresponding notch in mesoventrite well marked; mesoventral process about twice as wide as long; mesepisternum rugose. Penis moderately elongate, trigonium bilobed, tegmen without styli (Figs 60–62 in Watts 2011). Female micropterous; ventrite 4 with a row of long setae near posterior edge; gonocoxites elongate, moderately sclerotized, gonostyli moderately long, apical; prehensor well developed (Fig. 33 in Watts 2011, Ruta 2020). Larvae not known.

Included species. Daploeuros lamingtonensis Watts, 2011 ; D. reichertae Ruta, 2020 ; D. spencei ( Armstrong, 1953) ; D. hadrostiktos Watts, 2011 .