Hypolepida Britton, 1978

(Figs. 1–10)

Hypolepida Britton 1978: 36 (original description); Houston & Weir 1992: 308 (catalogue); Weir et al. 2019: 493.

Type species. Hypolepida wilsoni Britton, 1978, by original designation.

Diagnosis. Melolonthini (sensu Weir et al. 2019) with: head, pronotum and elytra black, contrasting with brown elytra (Figs. 1, 7); antennae with 10 antennomeres with a 6-lamellate or 7-lamellate club in male (Figs. 3, 8); profemora and protibiae, head, pronotum, scutellum and elytra with elongate, flattened, adpressed setae (Fig. 2), head and disc of pronotum without long setae, pronotal hypopleura with long setae, without circular white scales contained within their punctures on either dorsal or ventral surfaces; terminal palpomere of maxillary palp with an obvious dorsal flat area; anterior face of clypeus with ratio of greatest width to mid length 4–6:1; upper surface of clypeus not deeply concave but with slightly reflexed anterior margin, outline broadly rounded; junctions between abdominal ventrites 1–5 much less obvious in the middle than on the sides; anterior edge of metafemora not concave near base; both spurs of metatibia slender, upper one slightly longer than lower; claws with a tooth on the concave side; male parameres bilaterally symmetrical (Figs. 4–5, 9–10).