Genus Heterocoelia Dahlbom, 1854

Heterocoelia Dahlbom, 1854: 21 . Type species: Cleptes nigriventris Dahlbom, 1845 (subsequent designation in Bodenstein 1939: 127).

Codorcas Nagy, 1972: 10–12 . Type species: Mesitius cursor Kieffer, 1906 . Synonymized with Heterocoelia in Azevedo et al. 2018: 191.

Hamusmus Argaman, 2003: 72 . Type species: Mesitius punctatus Kieffer, 1906 . Synonymized with Heterocoelia in Azevedo et al. 2018: 191.

Ukayakos Argaman, 2003: 68 . Type species: Mesitius carcelli obscurus Kieffer, 1906 (in Kieffer & Marshall, 1904–1906). Synonymized with Heterocoelia in Azevedo et al. 2018: 191.

Diagnosis

Flagellomeres with setae dense and short (shorter than half-width of flagellomere); frons and dorsal area of pronotum densely foveolate. Median pronotal sulcus present. Median mesonotal sulcus usually absent (♀). Male hypopygium longer than wide with posterior branches broad and short; basal part of hypopygium with lateral and anterior margin incurved. Male genitalia with dorsal harpe S-shaped.

Host

Larva of Cryptocephalus sinaita moricei Pic, 1908 ( Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae) (Argaman 2003).

Distribution

Afrotropical, Oriental and Palaearctic Regions.