Bradymerus Perroud 1864

Identification key to the Bradymerus species from India (based on the key by Schawaller 2006) 1 Antennal club of five antennomeres...................................................................... 2 – Antennal club of four or six antennomeres................................................................. 3 2 Body ferruginous; anterior of the pronotum prolonged, covering the head in dorsal view; epistoma bent upward....................................................................................... B. cucullatus Fairmaire, 1897 – Body blackish; anterior margin of the pronotum not covering the head in dorsal view; epistoma straight............................................................................................... B. majeri Schawaller, 2006 3 Antennal club of six antennomeres....................................................................... 4 – Antennal club of four antennomeres...................................................................... 7 4 Frons with distinct supraorbital keel...................................................................... 5 – Frons without supraorbital keel.......................................................................... 6 5 Body light ferruginous; lateral margins of pronotum distinctly crenulated; pronotal disc without medial impression; tibiae keeled on the outer side........................................................ B. crenulicollis Fairmaire, 1882 – Body dark ferruginous; lateral margins of pronotum not crenulated; pronotal disc with median impression; tibiae not keeled................................................................................ B. kabakovi Kaszab, 1980 6 Body light ferruginous; pronotal disc with a pair of tubercles............................. B. nodicollis Gebien, 1925 – Body dark ferruginous; pronotal disc without tubercles................................ B. clathratus Schaufuss, 1887 7 Pronotal disc without granules between punctures; lateral sides of pronotum not crenulated; elytral intervals without keels and granules...................................................................... B. andamanus Gebien, 1914 – Pronotal disc with granules between the punctures; lateral sides of pronotum feebly crenulated; all elytral intervals slightly raised with rows of granules..................................................... .. B. mookambikanus sp. nov.