Cheirotonus

{{Short description|Genus of beetles}}

{{Taxobox

| image = Cheirotonus_macleayiMale.JPG

| image_caption = Cheirotonus macleayi (male)

| regnum = Animalia

| phylum = Arthropoda

| classis = Insecta

| ordo = Coleoptera

| familia = Scarabaeidae

| subfamilia = Euchirinae

| genus = Cheirotonus

| genus_authority = Hope, 1841

}}

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:{{cite journal|title=Euchirinae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) of the World: Distribution and Taxonomy| author=Young, Ronald M.| journal=The Coleopterists Bulletin| volume= 43| issue= 3 |year=1989|pages= 205–236| jstor=4008574}}

• C. battareli {{small|Pouillaude 1913}} - northern Vietnam
• C. formosanus {{small|Ohaus 1913}} - Taiwan
• C. gestroi {{small|Pouillaude 1913}} - Northeast India, Burma, Thailand, Vietnam
• =corompti {{small|Pouillaude 1913}}
• =henrici {{small|Pouillaude 1913}}
• =chiangdaoensis {{small|Minet 1987}}
• C. jambar {{small|Kurosawa 1984}} - North Okinawa
• C. jansoni {{small|(Jordan 1898)}} - Burma, China, Vietnam
• = nankinensis {{small|Yu, 1936}}
• = szetshuanus {{small|Medvedev, 1960}}
• C. macleayi {{small|Hope, 1841}} - Bhutan, India, China
• C. parryii {{small|Gray, 1848}} - Burma, India, Laos, Thailand
• C. peracanus {{small|Kriesche 1919}} - Peninsular Malaysia
• =arnaudi {{small|Minet 1981}}
• C. terunumai {{small|Muramoto 2008}} - Tibet