Physocrotaphus Parry, 1849

Sabu, Thomas K., Abhitha, Prabhakar & Zhao, Danyang, 2008, A new Helluodes Westwood species from Western Ghats with notes on habitat, distribution and phylogenetic relationships of genera Helluodes Westwood and Physocrotaphus Parry of the tribe Physocrotaphini Chaudoir (Insecta: Coleoptera: Carabidae: Anthiinae), Zootaxa 1745 (1), pp. 30-46 : 39

Physocrotaphus Parry, 1849

Parry, 1849: 180–181; Lacordaire, 1854: 181–182; Chaudoir, 1862: 303.

Color. Brownish black.

Head. Narrower than prothorax; frontal foveae deeply depressed. Genae sparsely setose with group six or seven setae. Labrum subrectangular, anterior angles rounded; anterior margin straight. Maxillary palps with palpomere 2 longest; palpomere 4 longer than 3 rd. Mentum with bifid median tooth; lateral lobes of with a sharp tooth at apex. Ligula short and truncate anteriorly; paraglossae distinctly longer than ligula.

Pronotum. Large, widest at anterior third with distinctly explanate lateral borders; apical margin straight; pronotal base narrower than apex, basal margin sinuate medially; anterior transverse sulcus obsolete; posterior transverse sulcus distinct.

Elytra. Lateral margins faintly subserrate; apices strongly sinuate near outer angles.

Venter. Abdominal sternite 3 of male with single circular, median depression and patch of long filamentous setae; sternites 3 to 5 in male and female with one pair of paramedian setae.

Genitalia. Female stylomere 1 triangular, without setae at apical rim; stylomere 2 with two very small ensiform setae along medial margin and one umbilicate seta in middle of outer margin. Male aedeagus well sclerotised; median lobe with a dorsal opening; apex narrow, tapered, and rounded.

Type species. Physocrotaphus ceylonicus Parry

Geographic distribution. Sri Lanka (Dikoya-Sri Lankan montane evergreen forests).