Mallotarsus Blanchard, 1850

Type species

Mallotarsus spadiceus Blanchard, 1850 (designation: monotypy).

Diagnosis

Protibia with three external teeth and with a spur; mesotarsomere I with an internal hook-like tooth (Fig. 13 C); metafemur with a ventral row of denticle-like setae (Fig. 13 H); tarsomere IV with an internodistal small tooth (Fig. 13 H); abdomen with intersegmental membrane VII–VIII exposed.

Remarks

Males of Mallotarsus have mesotarsomere I with a hook-like tooth similar to that found on Pseudoserica and part of Dicrania (e.g., D. ebenina Blanchard, 1850). Mallotarsus is distinguished as follows (opposition to 1, Dicrania; 2, Pseudoserica): pronotal posterior margin straight (1, as Mallotarsus; 2, margin with two lateromedial teeth projected between anterior elytron-scutellum contact, Fig. 13 A), protibia with three external teeth and a spur (1, with two external teeth and without spur; 2, with 1–3 external teeth and with or without spur).