Genus Croscherichia Pardo Alcaide, 1950

Zonabris circumflexa group, Escherich, 1899:89 (Part).

Mylabris group c ircumflexa, Cros, 1940:88 (Part) Mylabris (Croscherichia) Pardo Alcaide, 1950: 63, 64

(Type species circumflexa Chevrolat); Pardo Alcaide, 1954: 59, 62-65; Pardo Alcaide, 1958: 25; Note: 21. Libycisca Kuzin, 1954: 369 .

Croscherichia, Kaszab, 1957: 51; Pardo Alcaide, 1961: 98; Kaszab, 1968: 756; Kaszab, 1983: 148 (Part); Bologna, 1985: 295; Dvorak, 1985: 1 (Part).

Key Characters: Outer spur of metatibiae longer than inner one, rather spatulate and transversally cut at apex. Mesosternum is without middle scutum; mesosternal suture not very distinct and rather angulate. Body is often black or red, never metallic. Parameres of aedeagus are elongate, narrow, almost sub-equal and far from the apex; the latter, sub-square and dorsally oblique. Length ranges from: 7-23 mm.