Cheirotonus is a genus of long-armed scarabs (subfamily Euchirinae) with about 10 species with a distribution extending west along the Himalayas to Japan in the east. They live inside tree holes in montane forest and are attracted to lights. Males and females show differences in size and structure of the legs with males having elongated foretibiae. The pronotum is shiny green and the elytra are usually dark with orange patterning.
Eight to ten species, depending on the taxonomic treatment, are recognized:[1]
C. battareliPouillaude 1913 - northern Vietnam
C. formosanusOhaus 1913 - Taiwan
C. gestroiPouillaude 1913 - Northeast India, Burma, Thailand, Vietnam
=coromptiPouillaude 1913
=henriciPouillaude 1913
=chiangdaoensisMinet 1987
C. jambarKurosawa 1984 - North Okinawa
C. jansoni(Jordan 1898) - Burma, China, Vietnam
= nankinensisYu, 1936
= szetshuanusMedvedev, 1960
C. macleayiHope, 1841 - Bhutan, India, China
C. parryiiGray, 1848 - Burma, India, Laos, Thailand
C. peracanusKriesche 1919 - Peninsular Malaysia
=arnaudiMinet 1981
C. terunumaiMuramoto 2008 - Tibet
^Young, Ronald M. (1989). "Euchirinae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) of the World: Distribution and Taxonomy". The Coleopterists Bulletin. 43 (3): 205–236. JSTOR 4008574.
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