Anomalomorpha Arrow 1908

Anomalomorpha Arrow, 1908

Anomalomorpha Arrow, 1908: 344. Type species: Anomalomorpha anthracina Arrow, 1908, subsequent designation by Carne (1957).

Diagnosis (Figs. 15–49). Body 11.5–20.8 mm long, pronotum and elytra reddish-brown to black, legs yellowishreddish brown (almost white in live specimens); form ovate, low convex, head with recurved frontoclypeal suture often terminating in a tubercle, pronotum unarmed. Maxilla and galea reduced to small conical pieces, unarmed, terminated by pencils of sensory setae; mentum flat, ligula apex rounded, palps slender, elongate and conspicuous; mandibles obscured by clypeus, external margin rounded. Antennae with 10 antennomeres, club with 3 lamellae and shorter than length of shaft. Clypeus subrectangular; clypeofrontal suture posteriorly angulate. Pronotum with anterior margin unarmed, surface evenly convex, lateral margins guttered. Elytra with lateral margins guttered, epipleural plane in anterior half horizontal. Males with all tarsi elongate, claws enlarged, robust and slightly curved; protarsomere 5 longer than protarsomere 1; proclaws of male symmetrical; metafemur of male and female long, slender, protruding beyond elytra; metatibia of female long and slender. Parameres with internal margins untoothed, external margins preapically angulate, apices setose.