Stephanopodius Schedl, 1963a: 633

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Stephanopodius Schedl, 1963a: 633 ( Fig. 36 )

Synonymy

= Stephanopodius Schedl, 1941a: 396 (unavailable name). = Cryphalomimus Browne, 1962b: 75 (permanently invalid primary homonym).

= Cryphalomimetes Browne, 1963a: 242 .

= Cryphalmomimetes Wood, 1980: 95 (unavailable name).

Type of genus

Stephanoderes dispar Eggers, 1936 .

Diagnosis

Stephanopodius can be distinguished by the pronotum strongly arched, laterally inflated and rounded, with very rough asperities near the summit, by the antennal club nearly segmented, with two or three distinct sutures or grooves marked by thick, plumose setae, and by the metatibiae with lateral edge angulate and denticles only on apical margin, and by the bilobed third tarsi.

Figures

Figure 36. Images of Stephanopodius spp.: Dorsal and lateral photographs of A) Stephanopodius ghanaensis, B) S. dubiosus; C) head of S. dubiosus; D) proventriculus of S. dubiosus, and E) aedeagus of S. dubiosus.