Epipedus Spinola, 1837

Epipedus Spinola, 1837: 314 –315 (description); Rolston, 1987: 69 –70 (diagnosis)

Diagnosis. Body length larger than 10.0 mm. Shape of the body oval with a ratio of length versus width of the body larger than 1.39 (Fig. 1 C & 1G). Mandibular plates reflexed along lateral margins, converging over clypeus apically. Antennae 4-segmented: antennomers I surpassing apex of head, antennomers II with black spot at the tip, longer than antennomers III (not seen in E. rolstoni because they are missing). Anterolateral margins of pronotum convex. Corium with black deep contrasting punctations. Anterolateral border of exocorium flat. Apices of tibiae triangular.

Comments. Rolston (1987) mentioned the mandibular plates strongly reflexed along lateral margins, the antennomers I surpassing apex of head, the anterolateral margins of pronotum strongly reflexed and tibiae with apex flattened or broadly rounded, as diagnosis characters of Epipedus, but not the other ones above. The other characters he mentioned are not diagnostic.