Cymatodera Gray, 1832

Burke, Alan F., 2013, Six new species of Cymatodera from Mexico and Central America and the retention of Cymatodera obliquefasciata as a valid name (Cleridae, Tillinae), ZooKeys 299, pp. 49-75 : 51

Genus Cymatodera Gray, 1832

Cymatodera See Barr (1952a), Barr (1972) and Vaurie (1952) for references and keys to species.

Type species.

Cymatodera hopei Gray, 1832: 375.

Diagnosis.

Members of the genus Cymatodera may be separated from other genera of the New World Tillinae by the following combination of characters (partially adopted from Opitz 2002): 1) frons simple, without prominent horns, 2) elytra with striated punctuations, 3) antenna strongly serrate to filiform, 4) last antennomere circular in cross section, shorter than the length of preceding three antennomeres, 5) tarsal pulvillar formula 4-4-4, 6) tibial spur formula: 2-2-2, 6) basal denticle of tarsal claws trigonal, 7) eyes coarsely faceted, 8) body length 4.0 - 30.0 mm.