Pentodon Hope, 1837

Bunalski, Marek & Śmiełowski, Jan, 2020, Review of African Species of the Genus Pentodon Hope, 1837 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Dynastinae: Pentodontini), The Coleopterists Bulletin 74 (3), pp. 547-554 : 548

Genus Pentodon Hope, 1837

Morphology. Body stout, moderately convex, of brown-black to black color. Head trapezoidal, distinctly punctured; frontoclypeal suture well delineated, with one or two tubercles. External edges of mandibles with lobate teeth. Pronotum quite wide, evenly convex, its lateral edges carinate. Elytron punctate, with four flat ridges. Propygidium with very weak stridulatory bands at the base. Pygidium punctate, semicircular or triangular in outline. Front tibia short and wide, external edge with three large teeth, sometimes with additional teeth in front of basal denticle. Middle and hind tibiae massive, terminated with two spurs. Tarsi rather small, with two straight claws. Sexual dimorphism weakly delineated—the male apical abdominal ventrite arcuately emarginate whereas the female one rounded.