Ceraspis LePeletier de Saint-Fargeau & Audinet-Serville, 1828

Type species

Ceraspis pruinosa LePeletier de Saint-Fargeau & Audinet-Serville, 1828 (designation: Lacordaire 1856: 252); a synonym of C. bivulnerata (Germar, 1824) .

Diagnosis

Body covered by scale-like or stout setae; pronotal anterior margin not beaded; pronotum−scutellum contact acutely sinuous (Fig. 8 C); prosternum with an anterior longitudinal carina; protibia with two external teeth and without spur; meso- and metacoxae contiguous; metatarsomere V with internoproximal spine-like setae.

Remarks

Ancistrosoma, Ceraspis, Chariodema, Faula, Manopus Conte de Castelnau, 1840, Pectinosoma and Pseudopectinosoma have a sinuous pronotum−scutellum contact (Fig. 8 A–E). Ceraspis is distinguished by the medially contiguous meso- and metacoxae (separate in other genera).

The present study revalidates Faula, formerly a synonym of Ceraspis . Consequently 27 species are transferred to Faula, and Ceraspis now comprises 75 species: C. ajonjoli Mora-Aguilar, Delgado, and Vallejo, 2013, C. albipennis Frey, 1973, C. albovaria Frey, 1962, C. alvarengai Frey, 1973, C. amazonica Frey, 1962, C. amoema Frey,1962, C. bivulnerata, C. brittoni Frey, 1962, C. bufo Frey, 1962, C. burmeisteri Frey, 1962, C. castaneipennis Blanchard, 1850, C. cinerea Moser, 1921, C. citrina Blanchard, 1850, C. colon Burmeister, 1855, C. conspersa Burmeister, 1855, C. convexicollis Frey, 1969, C. costulata Frey, 1965, C. decora Gory, 1831, C. diversa Frey, 1962, C. dorsata Burmeister, 1855, C. dorsipicta Frey, 1972, C. duckei Ohaus, 1911 (type species of monotypic subgenus Isoceraspis Ohaus, 1911), C. elegans Nonfried, 1892, C. elongata Frey, 1962, C. farinosa Burmeister, 1855, C. femorata Frey, 1969, C. flava Blanchard, 1850, C. fulva Blanchard, 1850, C. gibbicollis Blanchard, 1850, C. globicollis Frey, 1962, C. griseosquamosa Moser, 1921, C. guttata Blanchard, 1850, C. imitatrix Nonfried, 1892, C. kuntzeni Moser, 1921, C. lepida Frey, 1973, C. leucosoma Blanchard, 1850, C. linharensis Frey, 1973, C. lurida Frey, 1962, C. martinezi Frey, 1962, C. melanoleuca LePeletier de Saint-Fargeau & Audinet-Serville, 1828, C. mixta Blanchard, 1850, C. moseri Frey, 1962, C. mustela Frey, 1962, C. mutica Moser, 1921, C. nitida Frey, 1962, C. nivea LePeletier de Saint-Fargeau & Audinet-Serville, 1828, C. niveipennis Gistel, 1857, C. oblonga Moser, 1919, C. obscura Blanchard, 1850, C. ocellata Frey, 1962, C. ornata Frey, 1962, C. pallida Blanchard, 1850, C. pauperata Burmeister, 1855, C. penai Frey, 1964, C. pereirae Frey, 1962, C. plaumanni Frey, 1962, C. pulchra Frey, 1962, C. rotundicollis Frey, 1973, C. ruficollis Frey, 1962, C. setiventris Moser, 1921, C. signata Blanchard, 1850, C. sparsesetosa Frey, 1972, C. squamulata Moser, 1924, C. striata Frey, 1973, C. subvittata Moser, 1921, C. sulcicollis Moser, 1921, C. tenuisquamosa Frey, 1962, C. tibialis Blanchard, 1850, C. unguicularis Moser, 1919, C. variegata Perty, 1833, C. ventralis Frey, 1862, C. vestita Blanchard, 1850, C. vittata Moser, 1919, C. vulpes Frey, 1962 and C. zikani Moser, 1924 .