Pogonistes Chaudoir 1872

Genus Pogonistes Chaudoir, 1872

Pogonistes Chaudoir, 1872: 22.

Eupogonistes Carret, 1903: 151;

type species Pogonus gracilis Dejean, 1828.

Type species

Pogonus testaceus Dejean, 1828.

Diagnoses

Supraocular sulcus short and shallow, ending at the level of the anterior supraocular seta or barely surpassing it. Pronotum cordiform or sub-cordiform; elytra parallel or sub-parallel. Up to 3 setigerous pores along the 3 rd interstria; 9 th interstria wider than the 8 th.

Description

Length: 4.0–6.0 mm. Tegument testaceous or brown (in the last case, with bronze sheen). Palps yellow, lighter than the testaceous legs and antennae. Pronotum little or nothing transverse; the anterior angles may be protruding or not, and occasionally have with tiny setae. Lateral sulcus of the pronotum narrow; hind angles hardly conspicuous. Base of the pronotum as wide as or less wide than the base of the elytra. Elytra generally convex. Legs testaceous, never darker than the body tegument. Prosternum covered by fine setae. Median lobe of the aedeagus slightly arcuate and clearly directed down.

Chorology

The genus is represented over the whole Palaearctic Region (Bousquet 2017).

The Ibero-Balearic representatives of Pogonistes are distributed along the Mediterranean coast of the peninsula, in the saline environments of the Ebro valley and the Southern Sub-plateau and in the Balearic Islands.