Fornax Laporte, 1835

Otto, Robert L., 2023, The false click beetles (Coleoptera: Elateroidea: Eucnemidae) of the Dominican Republic. Part I: A look into the past, Insecta Mundi 2023 (973), pp. 1-23 : 16

Genus Fornax Laporte, 1835

Diversity and distribution. Fornax is one of the largest group, consisting more than 300 species distributed world-wide in all regions, except Antarctica.

Diagnosis. Apical margin of frontoclypeal region evenly rounded and more than twice as wide as the distance between antennal sockets; well-developed basally open lateral antennal grooves present; male prothoracic tarsomere I simple, with basal sex combs; metacoxal plates medially more than 6.0 times wider than laterally; elytral epipleura basally grooved or evenly punctate; last visible ventrite either strongly produced, rounded or truncated; tarsal claws basally toothed; lateral surfaces of mesothoracic and metathoracic tibiae with setae and transverse rows of spine combs; male aedeagus dorsoventrally compressed, without secondary lateral lobes; median lob simple, with moderately and narrowly bifurcate apices; lateral lobes simple, entire, aedeagal flagellum simple.