Taxonomic notes on the tribe Dryptini Bonelli, 1810 with description of a new genus and species from China (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Dryptini) Author Sciaky, Riccardo Author Anichtchenko, Alexander text Zootaxa 2020 2020-02-10 4731 4 522 530 journal article 24095 10.11646/zootaxa.4731.4.5 93d3ab00-6496-442a-953f-700aaa938c5d 1175-5326 3661980 47B975A5-547D-470E-B94E-05B8128C1A69 Prionodrypta Jeannel, 1949 Type species: Drypta mandibularis Castelnau, 1897 This genus, very synthetically described by Jeannel (1949) , is scarcely known, so that none of the few authors who have mentioned it has noticed its peculiar characters and its complete independence from the “true” Drypta , rather treating it as a simple subgenus of Drypta ( Lorenz, 2005 ) , or implicitly considering it a synonym of Drypta ( Baehr, 2003 , 2017 ). In our opinion it is a well distinguished genus, probably related to Nesiodrypta and forming with it and with Megadrypta , here described, a group of Gondwanian origin, The completely beaded sides of pronotum seem to us a more primitive character compared to the unbeaded sides of Drypta and Dendrocellus , indicating a more ancient group from which probably the other two genera have later evolved. It contains 8 species from South-East Asia ( India , Myanmar , Indonesia , China , Laos ), still inadequately known; a revision would be useful. The unique combination of characters distinguishing this genus is: pronotal bead well marked, with margin serrate (fig. 11); punctuation on head sparse, often leaving the frons smooth, on pronotum dense and irregular, with the punctures often confluent; pronotum evidently constricted towards base; elytral microsculpture almost absent, intervals smooth; elytral pubescence only aligned along the striae; single scutellar pore; intervals rather convex; tarsal claws thick, strongly curved, smooth on inner side; no setae, or a rudimental one, on outer side of stylomere ( fig. 6 ).