Dendropaemon (Coprophanaeoides) Edmonds, 1972

François Génier & Patrick Arnaud, 2016, Dendropaemon Perty, 1830: taxonomy, systematics and phylogeny of the morphologically most derived phanaeine genus (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae, Scarabaeinae, Phanaeini), Zootaxa 4099 (1) : 8

Dendropaemon (Coprophanaeoides) Edmonds, 1972

Dendropaemon (Coprophanaeoides) Edmonds 1972 , Univ. Kansas Sc. Bull. 49: 850 (original description) Dendropaemon (Coprophanaeoides) : Vaz-de-Mello 2000, Hac. Proy. CYTED: 192 (faunistic)

Dendropaemon (Coprophanaeoides) : Arnaud 2002, Col. Monde. 28: 15 (monograph)

Dendropaemon (Coprophanaeoides) : Vaz-de-Mello & Génier 2009, Col. Bull. 63: 364 (biology)

Type species: Dendropaemon renatii Olsoufieff, 1924 ; original designation.

Diagnosis. Size moderate. Habitus rectangular in dorsal view, parallel sided; with metallic sheen on head, pronotum and elytra. Body moderately compressed dorsoventrally. Clypeal edge acutely angularly emarginate on external side of each clypeal tooth; clypeal teeth acutely angular to ogival. Pronotum with some fine to coarse punctures on disc; anterior margin flat lateral to eyes; lateral fossae bordered laterally by a blunt carina and anteriorly by a blunt tubercle. Elytral base marginate. Meso and metatarsi similar in shape, three segmented, first segment approximately as long as wide at apex, last segment spiniformly produced internally, with setae apically.