Dryptelytra Laporte, 1833: 128

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Dryptelytra Laporte, 1833: 128 .

Type species: Dryptelytra cayennensis Laporte, 1833:129 (by monotypy).

Diagnosis: Elytra considerably dehiscent on inner margin, each elytron narrowed in the basal quarter, consequently, elytra separated by elytral width in distal half. Head with eyes about as long as interocular distance, pronotum extended over the head and base of antennae forward, mandibles slender, simply arcuate (not right-angled). Antennae flabellate, apical margin of antennomere I rounded, slightly hornlike, lamellae slender (not spathuliform), their length decreasing apically, the extent of inner sulcus on the internal margin of apical maxillary palpomere half or less. Pronotum and elytra with long (primary) pubescence. Abdomen strongly lobed, abdominal sternum VII widened posteriorly, pygidium considerably widened distally, widest in the distal quarter, mesiodistal point of sternum VIII broad and short, apex of phallus cleft, parameral apices curved, acute.

Distribution: French Guiana, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela, Paraguay, Peru, Panama.