Hymenoepimecis Viereck, 1912

Epimecis Brullé, 1846: 112. Type-species: Epimecis bicolor Brullé, by subsequent designation; Ashmead, 1900: 54.

Hymenoepimecis Viereck, 1912: 149. [Replacement name for Epimecis Brullé, 1846, junior homonym of Epimecis Hübner, 1825]

Comments.

According to Gauld (1991, 2000) Hymenoepimecis is very similar with the sister genus Acrotaphus Townes, 1960. They both have the occipital carina strongly raised (flange-like) and projecting posteriorly to surround the anterior reflexed end of the pronotum; head rounded with the genae strongly narrowed from the eyes to the occipital flange; and the pronotum unusually elongated, with a long horizontal part mediodorsally. It differs from Acrotaphus by having a unique forwardly directed pocket-like structure on the pronotum mediodorsally.