Allochotes Westwood, 1875

Murakami, Hiroyuki, Yamasako, Junsuke, Chou, Wen-I & Yang, Ganyan, 2013, Review of the genus Allochotes (Coleoptera: Cleridae: Neorthopleurinae) from Taiwan, Zootaxa 3710 (6), pp. 565-577 : 566

Genus Allochotes Westwood, 1875

Allochotes Westwood, 1875: 241 (type species: Allochotes bicolor Westwood, 1875 , subsequently designated by Chapin, 1924: 256).

Sisyrnophorus Waterhouse, 1876: 125 (type species: Sisyrnophorus maculatus Waterhouse, 1876 , subsequently designated by Chapin, 1924: 256, synonymized by Lohde, 1900: 97).

Sisynophorus [sic!]: Lewis, 1891: 210 (misspelling).

Diagnosis. Head sparsely covered with setigerous punctures, narrower than pronotum; occiput hidden beneath prothorax; eyes large. Antennomere 1 claviform; 2nd rounded, short, almost half the length of 1st segment; 3rd elongate; 4th–10th more or less serrate; 11th flattened, broad and oval. Pronotum rounded quadrangular, convex dorsally; basal and lateral margins carinate; disk evenly and sparsely set with setigerous punctures throughout. Elytra oblong, oval or round, convex dorsally, slightly longer than width; humeri roundly projected. Legs with femora stout, fusiform; pro- and mesotibae slightly dilated apically, densely covered with setae of which those on the inner side are markedly short; tibial spur formula 0–0–1; tarsal pulvillar formula 3–3–3.

Remarks. The diagnosis above is restricted to the Taiwanese congeners of the genus.