Hemicladus

Tavakilian, Gérard Luc, Touroult, Julien & Dalens, Pierre-Henri, 2010, Revision of the genus Hemicladus Buquet, 1857 with a special focus on the species from French Guiana (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Lamiinae), Zootaxa 2358, pp. 39-48 : 46-47

Key to species of the genus Hemicladus

1 Elytra of homogeneous colour ...................................................................................................................................... 2

- Elytra with a wide transverse band of light colour (integument reddish covered with whitish pubescence) near the middle; pronotum with two well delimited, broad, lateral yellow-earth coloured bands .............................................. ............................................................................................................................ H. fasciatus Galileo & Martins, 1991

2 Femora bicoloured; orange in their apical half (except apex) .............................................. H. callipus Buquet, 1857

- Femora dark, of homogeneous colour ............................................. ………………………………………………….3

3 Pronotum without wrinkles, with dense honeycombed punctures; integument of the elytra reddish, with very sparse pubescence .......................................................................................................................... H. thomsonii Buquet, 1857

- Pronotum with transverse wrinkles, with more or less dense punctures; integument of the elytra dark brown, covered

with pubescence ............................................................................................................................................................ 4 4 Pronotum covered with dense punctures, including the entire disc; antennomere 4 regularly flattened and expanded from base to apex ................................................................................................................... H. dejeanii Buquet, 1857 - Pronotum with sparse punctures, without punctures on the centre of the disc; antennomere 4 pedunculate, suddenly expanded in the apical third ............................................................................................................ H. buqueti sp. nov.