Dipentium Johnson, 1982

Darby, Michael, 2019, New Ptiliidae (Coleoptera) from Sarawak in the spirit collection of the Natural History Museum, London, European Journal of Taxonomy 512, pp. 1-50 : 9

Genus Dipentium Johnson, 1982

Genus of eleven species of robust, strongly chitinised beetles recorded from various tropical and subtropical parts of the world, especially in the Madagascan and Indo-Australian regions. The genus includes species with pronota that are both wider than and the same width basally as the elytra. The form of the mesoventral collar with a narrow medial ridge extending posteriorly from the raised front margin is shared with Greensladella Johnson, 2007 , Micridium Motschulsky, 1869 and Microptilium Matthews, 1872 in the Ptiliini , but they are much smaller and less robust species.