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.

Female

Frons sexually dimorphic, male variously impressed with short erect setae, female frons convex. Eyes elongated, broadly sinuate on anterior margin. Antennal club with two or three distinct sutures or grooves marked by thick, plumose setae or bundles of fine setae. Funicle 5-segmented. Pronotum strongly arched, with very rough asperities, concentric on summit appearing cup-like; males usually without marginal asperities. Elytra densely setose, with dense ground vestiture of scale-like setae and longer hair-like or more commonly scale-like interstrial setae. Procoxae contiguous. Metatibiae, sometimes also other tibiae, with lateral edge near apex angular, with denticles restricted to apical margin. Third tarsal segment bilobed.

Proventriculus with short apical plate, with rows of granules. Crop spines hair like. Tuft of spatulate setae posterior to the proventriculus.

Male

Similar to female. Penis apodemes fused at apex. Spiculum gastrale much thicker and more sclerotized than penis apodemes, with a fork.

Distribution

Sub-Saharan Africa.

Remarks

Seven species known. The relationship between this genus and the Xyloctonini genus Glostatus Schedl has been suggested by Pistone et al. (2018) based on molecular data. Most species are likely nested among or near Glostatus . A revision of the two genera is in progress by BHJ. The placement of Glostatus and Stephanopodius within Xyloctonini is not congruent with molecular phylogenies.

Type material examined

Paratype of Stephanoderes dispar Eggers, 1936 (BMNH) ; holotype and paratype of Hypocryphalus dubiosus Schedl, 1970 (SANC) .

Included species

Stephanopodius dispar (Eggers, 1936b: 35) (Stephanoderes) . Stephanopodius dubiosus (Schedl, 1970d: 117) (Hypocryphalus) comb. nov. [ Hypocryphalus].

Stephanopodius ghanaensis (Schedl, 1962b: 66) (Hypocryphalus) . Stephanopodius giganteus Schedl, 1950a: 26 .

Stephanopodius mkulumusius (Eggers, 1919: 241) (Stephanoderes) . Stephanopodius squamosus Nunberg, 1973: 9 .

Stephanopodius usambaricus Schedl, 1941a: 396 .