ABSTRACT
Prothorax freely movable, not tightly co-adapted to rest of thorax. Pronotum transverse, broadly emarginate anteriorly, sides evenly convex and broader posteriorly, base sinuate, sides strongly and anterior border weakly margined, surface punctate especially laterally; hypomeron broad, explanate, with long acute postcoxal process that does not close the procoxal cavities; notosternal suture complete; prosternum short, with small fingerlike intercoxal process that fits into groove in coxae but does not separate the apices of the coxae. Scutellum moderately large, subtriangular; mesosternum short, with elevated intercoxal plate; mesepisternal and mesepimeral sutures complete. Elytra convex, long but abruptly truncate, exposing only pygidium (abdominal tergum VII); striae represented by 9 unimpressed rows of punctures which become more or less irregular or obsolescent near base and apex; epipleural fold present, complete. Metathoracic wings present, with large anal lobe and relatively complete venation including distinct radial cell and large RP-MP
Cu” loop); see Kukalová-Peck and Lawrence (1993: fig. 41) for details and modern venational terminology, but note that MP
there. Metasternum long, metepisternal and metepimeral sutures complete; metendosternite with long basal stalk and pairs of long furcal and short anterior arms. Legs with pro-and mesotrochantins exposed; anterior coxae transverse, contiguous, prominent; middle coxae small, globular, well separated by elevated mesosternal plate plus flat metasternal process; hind coxae transverse, subcontiguous; trochanters small; femora swollen; tibiae relatively robust with small spines along outer edge but without teeth; tarsae 5-5-5, tarsomeres
Common name: The false clown beetles
slender with a few setae on each; apical tarsomere bearing a pair of large claws and a bisetose empodium between them.
