Chnoodes Chevrolat, 1849

Chnoodes Chevrolat in D’Orbygni, 1849: 612 (original description); Mulsant, 1850: 908 (systematics); Crotch, 1874: 286 (systematics); Chapuis, 1876: 221, 222 (systematics); Gorham, 1895: 215 (systematics); Korschefsky, 1932: 225 (catalogue); Blackwelder, 1945: 450 (catalogue); Fürsch, 1990: 9 (catalogue); Bouchard et al., 2011: 375 (catalogue). Chapinella Gordon, 1996:27 (new name); Gordon, 2007: 1 (synonymy).

Type species: Chnoodes chaudori Mulsant, 1850, by subsequent designation (Gordon, 2007).

Diagnosis. Antenna 11 - segmented; labrum truncate; two parallel carinae on lateral margins; thoracic foveae absent; tibia flat, with or without widening; abdomen with five visible sternites in females and six in males. Abdominal postcoxal line incomplete, recurved. Male with basal lobe and parameres symmetrical. Sipho slender, with well-developed siphonal capsule. Female genitalia with genital plate elongate; spermatheca C - shaped, simple.