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.