Key to species of the genus Cryptorhopalum (Coleoptera: Dermestidae) occurring in the Greater Antilles with description of six new species from Hispaniola

Zoological Studies

Table 1 Comparison of genera closely related to Cryptorhopalum

Genera characters	*Cryptorhopalum*	*Hemirhopalum*	*Labrocerus*	*Orphinus*	*Thaumaglossa*
Structure of the antennal club of male	Two-segmented, more or less oval or somewhat egg-shaped, and ultimate and penultimate segments of club subequal in length, or penultimate segment is longer than ultimate	Two-segmented, oval and elongate rather than round, and ultimate and penultimate segments of club subequal in length, or penultimate segment longer than ultimate	Two to eight-segmented	Two-segmented, round or suboval, ultimate segment greatly enlarged and dominates antennal club	Three-segmented, round or subtriangular, ultimate segment greatly enlarged and dominates antennal club
Appendix on the claw	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Present
Distribution	Nearctic and Neotropical	Neotropical	Nearctic	Afrotropic, Indo-Malayan, Australasian, and Oceanic	Nearctic, Neotropical, Afrotropic, and Indo-Malayan

Following Beal (1959 2003), Ohbayashi (1985), Háva (2004), and Kadej and Kitano (2010).