Zethopsus

Belongs within: Bythinoplectitae.

Zethopsus is an Old World tropical genus of pselaphine beetles with ten-segmented antennae ending in a single-segmented club (Raffray 1903).

Characters (Raffray 1903): Antenna ten-segmented; first two segments very large, intermediate ones lenticular, club formed only by last segment which is very large, ovoid. Palpal fossa open externally, gena not extended in front of eyes.

Zethopsus Reitter 1880R03
    |--Z. batavianus Schaufuss 1882R03
    |--Z. bifoveolatus Raffray 1894R03
    |--Z. cordiger (Schaufuss 1887) [=Pyxidicerus cordiger]R03
    |--Z. cornutus Raffray 1896R03
    |--Z. crassicornis Raffray 1887R03
    |--Z. decipiens Raffray 1887R03
    |--Z. dohrni Raffray 1883R03
    |--Z. elegans [=Euplectomorphus elegans]R03
    |--Z. furcifer Raffray 1893R03
    |--Z. humilis Raffray 1894R03
    |--Z. laevipennis Raffray 1893R03
    |--Z. laticeps Raffray 1897R03
    |--Z. latifrons Raffray 1896R03
    |--Z. major Raffray 1896R03
    |--Z. nitidulus Reitter 1882R03
    |--Z. opacus Schaufuss 1877R03
    |--Z. papuanus Raffray 1903R03
    |--Z. procerus Raffray 1894R03
    |--Z. puberulus Raffray 1894R03
    |--Z. puncticeps Raffray 1903R03
    |--Z. sculptifrons Reitter 1883R03
    |--Z. semipunctatus Raffray 1894R03
    |--Z. simplicifrons Reitter 1883R03
    |--Z. sublaevis Raffray 1893R03
    |--Z. sulcicollis Raffray 1896R03
    |--Z. testis [=Euplectomorphus testis]R03
    |--Z. triophthalmus (Schaufuss 1896) [=Pyxidicerus triophthalmus]R03
    |--Z. tythus [=Pyxidicerus tythus]R03
    |--Z. venustus [=Pyxidicerus venustus; incl. P. amoenus]R03
    `--Z. westwoodi Schaufuss 1882R03

*Type species of generic name indicated

References

[R03] Raffray, A. 1903. Genera et catalogue des psélaphides. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 72: 484–604.