Anamorphinae Strohecker 1953
Creators: name: Shockley, Floyd W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Endomychidae

description: Key to the New World genera of Anamorphinae   1. Elytra with broad, explanate margins; fossil in Dominican amber....  Discolomopsis Shockley    
 — Elytra without broad, explanate margins; not fossilized............................................................ 2   
 2(1). Procoxal cavities open externally................................................................................................. 3   
 — Procoxal cavities closed externally..................................  Acritosoma Pakaluk and Slipinski    
 3(2). Posterior margin of pronotum distinctly lobed medially............................................................. 4   
 — Posterior margin of pronotum truncate or weakly bisinuate................................................... 11   
 4(3). Tarsal claw with a sharp internal tooth ventrally...................................................................... 5   
 — Tarsal claw simple or at most expanded basally......................................................................... 7   
 5(4). Pronotum with conspicuous lateral sulci, although sometimes faint......................................... 6   
 — Pronotum lacking lateral sulci entirely..................................................  Rhymbomicrus Casey    
 6(5). Lateral sulci connected by a fine transverse stria near middle of pronotal disc; antennae 9- or 10- segmented............................................................................................  Anamorphus LeConte    
 — Lateral sulci not connected; antennae 11-segmented............................  Micropsephus Gorham    
 7(4). Pronotum with lateral carinae connecting with lateral sulci externally and reaching the front margin.......................................................................................  Austroclemmus Strohecker    
 — Pronotum without lateral carinae............................................................................................... 8   
 8(7). Pronotum with distinct lateral sulci.................................................  Bystus Guérin-Méneville    
 — Pronotum lacking lateral sulci.................................................................................................... 9   
 9(8). Antennal club serrate...................................................................  Micropsephodes Champion    
 — Antennal club not serrate.......................................................................................................... 10   
 10(9). Tarsi 4-4-4; antennae 11-segmented..........................................................  Catapotia Thomson    
 — Tarsi 3-3-3; antennae 9-segmented................................................................  Dialexia Gorham    
 11(3). Pronotum with lateral carinae extending to anterior margin; habitus ovoid.......................... 12   
 — Pronotum with carinae not reaching anterior margin; habitus subparallel..........................................................................................................................................  Symbiotes Redtenbacher    
 12(11). Tarsi 3-3-3........................................................................................................  Clemmus Hampe    
 — Tarsi 3-4-4........................................................................................................  Exysma Gorham
description: Published as part of Shockley, Floyd W., 2010, Micropsephodes bahamaensis, a new species of Anamorphinae (Coleoptera: Cucujoidea: Endomychidae) from the Bahamas, with a key to the New World genera of Anamorphinae, pp. 1-11 in Insecta Mundi 2010 (112) on page 2, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4645498