Hemipeplus Latreille, 1829

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Hemipeplus Latreille, 1829

Hemipeplus Latreille, 1829: 53 . Type species: Hemipeplus hemipterus Lacordaire, 1854 (by subsequent monotypy).— Horn 1880: xiv; Casey 1884: 100, 1916: 112; Leng 1920: 200; Scott 1933: 604; Hetschko 1930: 90; Schenkling 1934: 1; Blackwelder 1945: 423; Kamiya 1963: 14; Thomas 1985: 368; Poole & Gentili 1996: 315; Pollock 1997: 81; Pollock 1999: 56; Pollock 2010: 693; Hsiao & Pollock 2022: 3.

Nemicelus LeConte, 1856: 79 . Type species: Nemicelus marginipennis LeConte, 1856 (by monotypy).— Horn 1880: xiv; Leng 1920: 200; Thomas 1985; Poole & Gentili 1996: 315. Junior synonym of Hemipeplus as per Lacordaire (1854).

Ochrosanis Pascoe, 1866: 444 . Type species: Ochrosanis dohrnii Pascoe, 1866 (by monotypy).— Gestro 1873: 363; Horn 1880: xiv; Leng 1920: 200; Hetschko 1930: 90; Poole & Gentili 1996: 315. Junior synonym of Hemipeplus as per LeConte (1873).

Derivation of generic name: The name Hemipeplus comes from the Greek words hemi, meaning ‘half’, and peplo, meaning ‘a body-length garment’. The genus is based on H. hemipterus which has truncate elytra that do not cover the entire abdomen as though by a “half-length garment”.

Adult Diagnosis: Head wide; eyes located posterior of midlength of head ( Pollock 1997, 1999); pronotum wide and cordate often with a distinct, anterior setose pronotal pad; abdominal process narrow; last tergite of abdomen not angulate or pointed in males ( Pollock 1997, 1999); body elongate; elytra flat and subparallel, bearing apical patches.