Aschnarhyparus Makhan 2006

Genus Aschnarhyparus Makhan, 2006 Diagnosis Length 3.0 – 3.8 mm. Body elongate, oval, posteriorly narrowed, piceous. Head with six short longitudinal carinae; clypeus with transversal groove before anterior margin, with four teeth, two anterior to clypeal margin and two just before gena, anterior margin not emarginate inward bent. Pronotum with lateral margin sinuate, with two lateral lobes; with six medially longitudinal carinae interrupted by a row of large pits. Elytra narrowed posteriorly, with eight longitudinal carinae and two posterior setaceous tubercles. Protibia with two teeth; meso- and metatibiae inner margin grooved; metatibia laterally flattened, wide. Remarks Aschnarhyparus is monotypic genus recorded from Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guyana, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Suriname and Trinidad (Skelley 2007a).