Asiocnemis Mamaev, 1976

Otto, Robert L., 2017, Descriptions of six new species of false click beetles (Coleoptera: Eucnemidae: Macraulacinae), with new identification keys for one tribe and two genera, Insecta Mundi 2017 (558), pp. 1-19 : 6

Genus Asiocnemis Mamaev, 1976

Diversity and Distribution. Asiocnemis is a small group comprised of seven species. Six species are primarily distributed along the western side of the North American continent, including a single species in Mexico. One species is distributed in the Far East region of Russia.

Diagnosis. Macraulacini , with apical margin of frontolclypeal region evenly rounded and more than twice as wide as the distance between antennal sockets; antennae serrate, flattened with or without lateral keels; basally opened lateral antennal grooves present; antennal grooves either well defined or medially vaguely defined; male prothoracic tarsomere I simple with basal sex combs; metathoracic coxal plates medially 3.0–6.0 times longer than laterally; last visible ventrite rounded; tarsal claws simple; lateral surfaces of mesothoracic and metathoracic tibiae with setae and transverse rows of spine combs; male aedeagus dorsoventrally compressed, without secondary lateral lobes; median lobe simple, with moderately and narrowly bifurcate apices; median lobe well defined, fused with lateral lobes; flagellum simple.