Taurocerus Amyot & Serville, 1843

The genus can be recognized by having the first antennal segment not surpassing the apex of the head; the mandibular plates shorter than the clypeus; the labium reaching the abdominal sternite III to IV; the first labial segment surpassing the bucculae; the bucculae is anteriorly truncate and posteriorly lobed; the humeral angles are projected in strong spines with the apex curve and backward; the femora distally with short spines, one dorsally and a pair laterally; the tibiae is dorsally sulcate; the mesosternum is slightly more elevated than the metasternum; the abdominal sternites have a medial, longitudinal kneel; and the abdominal sternite III has a medial tubercle opposed to posterior margin of the metasternum (Grazia & Barcellos 2005).