Dashymenia Poppius

(Figures 5–12, 44–45, 50–51, 55–86)

Dashymenia Poppius, 1910: 170 [gen. nov.], type species: Dashymenia convexicollis Poppius, 1910 (original designation) Dashymenia: Carvalho 1955: 17 [key to genera], 1957: 27 [catalog]; Schuh 1995: 24 [catalog]; Gorczyca 2000: 47 [list], 2006: 11 [catalog]

Dasymenia: Bergroth 1920: 69 [unnecessary emendation]

Diagnosis. Body elongate oval to suboval (Figs. 5–12, 55, 64), usually larger than 4.5 mm; dorsum shining, covered with long, dense vestiture; head moderately rugose (Figs. 44–45); antenna shortened (Figs. 5–12); antennal segment I cylindrical along entire length, weakly narrowed basally (Figs. 55, 64, 74); segment II stout (Figs. 5–12), covered with dense vestiture (Figs. 74–75); apex of labium reaching beyond apex of procoxae (Fig. 51); pronotal calli flattened, not distinctly separated from remainder of pronotum, sometimes absent (Figs. 5–12); scutellum almost flattened or weakly arched, without any medial swelling (Figs. 5–12); metepisternum inpunctate (Figs. 50–51, 69–70); ostiolar peritreme characteristically rounded, devoid of microtrichae and shiny (Figs. 71); cuneus longer than its width (Figs. 5–12, 76, 78); endosoma with DSS stout, strongly broadened basally and with full set of other sclerites (Figs. 39, 57–58, 60–61, 80, 84).

Dashymenia is most similar to Bakeriola in sharing inpunctate metepisternum. This genus can, however, be distinguished by the flattened, indistinct pronotal calli.