Phaeochrous is a genus of beetles belonging to the family Hybosoridae. The species are widely distributed over tropical Africa, Madagascar, Aldabra, Yemen, South Asia, South-East Asia, New Guinea and Oceanian islands, as well as North and West Australia.
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Phaeochrous is a genus of beetles belonging to the family Hybosoridae. The species are widely distributed over tropical Africa, Madagascar, Aldabra, Yemen, South Asia, South-East Asia, New Guinea and Oceanian islands, as well as North and West Australia.
==Description== Body length is approximately 8 to 17 mm. Eyes normally developed. Pronotum glabrous. Elytra striate, without longitudinal carenae. Male is yellowish brown, via dark reddish brown, to nearly black. Margins of the head, pronotum and elytra lighter, or more reddish whereas the ventrum is about reddish to dark brown. Labrum anteriorly emarginate, with a row of long, erect setae along its fore margin. Anterior margin of clypeus is concave. Gena rounded and protruding laterally beyond eye, and clothed with a conspicuous tuft of yellowish, erect setae. Pronotum disc with double isodiametric punctation and often a faint median longitudinal band is visible. Anterior margin of pronotum is bisinuate, whereas the base is bisinuate. Elytra completely glabrous or with sparse, hardly discernible, short, erect setae in apical area. Elytral surface with around 16 to 18 striae, composed of round to quadrangular punctures. Mandibles are more or less strongly protruding beyond labrum. Parameres are strongly asymmetric. Females with less wide to hardly present lateral deplanations in pronotum. Elytral setae of lateral fringe much shorter. Mandibles much less to hardly protruding beyond labrum, and evenly rounded.
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