Pseudochillus, Fouquè, 2015

Fouquè, René, 2015, A review of the genera Indostola, Tagenostola, Indochillus, Pseudethas, and Pseudochillus gen. nov. in South East Asia (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae: Stenosini), Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 55 (1), pp. 217-242 : 226

Pseudochillus subgen. nov.

Type species. Pseudochillus (Pseudochillus) bangaloreanus ( Kaszab, 1981), here designated.

Description. Body length 4.0– 6.2 mm. Clypeus concave with small tooth. Tempora 1.5–2.0 times longer than eye length. Suborbital keel prominent and markedly convex. Occiput with triangular impression, but not sharply bordered. Junction of interval 7 and 9 on elytra forming a small obliquely directed humeral corner. Elytra glabrous. Antennomeres longer than wide.

Diagnosis. Pseudochillus subgen. nov. differs from Kaszabochillus subgen. nov. and Micropseudochillus subgen. nov. primarily in a prominent suborbital keel and tempora that are 1.5–2.0 times longer than eye length. In both, Kaszabochillus subgen. nov. and Micropseudochillus subgen. nov. the suborbital keel is reduced and the tempora are at most as long as eye length. In Kaszabochillus the clypeus is straight without tooth, while in Pseudochillus the clypeus is concave and with a small tooth. Micropseudochillus subgen. nov. also differs in oval elytra; elytral intervals not forming humeral corners; elytral intervals 1, 3, 5, 7, and 9 with row of setae, while Pseudochillus subgen. nov. has elongate elytra, in middle third almost parallel; junction of interval 7 and 9 on elytra forming small obliquely directed humeral corner; glabrous elytra.