Type locality of type species: Hungary, Josvafo, Szelce-volge; female holotype in National Museum of Natural History, Budapest.
Current status: valid genus.
Type locality of type species: Hungary, Josvafo, Szelce-volge; female holotype in National Museum of Natural History, Budapest.
Current status: valid genus.
Additionally, Bitomoides differs from Bitomus s.s. by having an exposed labrum beneath the truncate clypeus, a character shared with Coleopius and Orientopius. The labrum is concealed in Bitomus. In Coleopius and most Bitomus, metasomal terga 4 and following are hidden beneath the carapace but are exposed in Bitomoides and in the holotype of the type species of Orientopius. This character, unfortunately, is somewhat subject to method of preparation and postmortem changes, and is often gender-dependent. As in Coleopius, the mesoscutal midpit is absent in Bitomoides.
The relatively recently described Coleopioides van Achterberg and Li, 2013 (Li et al. 2013) differs from these other four genera primarily because of the longer second submarginal cell. This is a bit subjective, however, since the second submarginal cell is longer in the type species of Bitomus than it is in the type species of Bitomoides, Coleopius, and Orientopius but shorter than in the type species of Coleopioides. Metasomal tergite 3 is also about as long as tergite 2 in Coleopioides and Bitomus but T3 is shorter than T2 in the other three genera.
There are no specimens currently determined for this OTU, or those specimens determined for this OTU are not yet mappable.
This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant Numbers DEB 9300517, DEB (PEET) 9712543, DEB (PEET) 0328922 with REU supplements 0723663 and 1026618 and DEB 0949027 with REU supplements 1213790 and 1313933. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.