Athrostictus Bates

Shpeley, Danny, Hunting, Wesley & Ball, George E., 2017, A taxonomic review of the Selenophori group (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Harpalini) in the West Indies, with descriptions of new species and notes about classification and biogeography, ZooKeys 690, pp. 1-195 : 15

Genus Athrostictus Bates

Athrostictus Bates, 1878: 592. TYPE SPECIES: Athrostictus sericatus Bates, 1878: 592 (designation by Noonan 1976: 41).- Blackwelder 1944: 48.- Reichardt 1977: 428.- Erwin and Sims 1984: 441.- Noonan 1985a: 35.- Lorenz 1998: 354.- Lorenz 2005: 376.

Arthrostictus Rye, 1880: 33 (misspelling).- Csiki 1932: 1195.

Recognition.

Both Athrostictus and Neoaulacoryssus are the only New World selenophorine genera whose species have short, dense setae on the elytral disc. In Athrostictus , the elytral punctures are round with longer setae, length approximately 3 or more times the width of the round punctures. In Neoaulacoryssus the elytral punctures are elongate, in places confluent and chain-like, with extremely short setae, length approximately half or less the width of the elongate punctures.

Included species.

Only one species, Athrostictus paganus (Dejean), is known from the West Indies.