Granastyochus Gilmour, 1959

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Granastyochus Gilmour, 1959a: 1 .

Type species — Astyochus elegantissimus Tippmann, 1953 (original designation).

Diagnosis. Surface with bright metallic green scales mixed with setae; lower eye lobes as tall as genae; antennae twice as long as body; prothorax subcylindrical, lateral tubercles strongly conical, usually upwardly directed, placed slightly postmedially; elytra without centrobasal crest or longitudinal carinae; prosternal process narrow; mesoventral process wide; basal metatarsomere longer than the two following together; apical ventrite produced into a very long ovipositor up to a little more than half the length of the elytra. Number of species currently included: 6; in Mexico and Central America: 3.