Scaphoxium Löbl, 1979

Scaphoxium is characterized notably by the hypomera expanded and lobed apicoventrally, in combination with the concealed mesepimera, the basal angles of pronotum not extending apicad, and the metanepisternal suture usually shortened. Scaphoxium currently comprises 49 species, additional two are in the studied samples. The genus is distributed throughout the Palaeotropics, extending in north­east to Japan and south­eastward to Melanesia and Northeast Australia.