Aphelocerus formicoides, OPITZ, 2005

OPITZ, WESTON, 2005, Classification, Natural History, And Evolution Of The Genus Aphelocerus Kirsch (Coleoptera: Cleridae: Clerinae), Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2005 (293), pp. 1-128 : 21

formicoides group

This group is comprised of two species whose members more than any other aphelocerans have the appearance of ants. Their pronotum proper is particularly globose, the elytra are short and very convex (fig. 45), and as in the case of the members of the cheliferous and myrmecoides groups, the elytral disc is faintly carinate longitudinally. The species range from southern Mexico to western Panama.