TRIBE PROTHEMINI

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DIAGNOSIS : head, body generally black, mat; eye finely facetted; antennae shorter than body, stout; elytron flattened on disc or somewhat concave along suture, epipleura distinctive; prothorax rounded at side, unarmed; hind femur usually exceeding abdominal apex; first hind tarsal segment laterally compressed, longer than the second and third united; fore coxal cavity rounded externally and closed posteriorly.

 

Key to genera of Prothemini in Sarawak

 

1.    Antennal segment 6 - 10 compressed, strongly broaden externally; epipleura of elytron distinctive, wide, somewhat thicken and usually terminating into angular cusp at apex; elytron flat above, sometimes concave along suture with submedian ridge separating declivity; disc usually with one or 2 transverse fascia. - Euryarthrum, BLANCHARD
Antennal segment 6 - 10 only moderately produced externally; elytron
convex above; epipleura of elytron narrow, indistinctive, not raised or ending with angular cusp at apex. - Prothema, PASCOE