Catomus Allard, 1876

Nabozhenko, Maxim & Ando, Kiyoshi, 2018, Subtribal, Generic And Subgeneric Composition Of Darkling Beetles Of The Tribe Helopini (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) In The Eastern Palaearctic Region, Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 64 (4), pp. 277-327 : 287-288

Catomus Allard, 1876

Type species Catomus persicus Allard, 1876, by subsequent designation ( GEBIEN, 1943).

The Asian species of the genus were partly revised by NABOZHENKO (2006, 2007, 2015a) with detailed descriptions and diagnoses of subgenera. Only two species of the subgenus Sinocatomus Nabozhenko, 2006 are known from Sichuan Province of China (NABOZHENKO 2006, LIU & REN 2010). This subgenus differs from other subgenera of Catomus by having the strongly convex keelshaped eight interstria near apex.