Pediobius epigonus species group

Diagnosis. Scutellum at least anteriorly densely longitudinally reticulate, meshes often indistinctly elongate. Female antenna with three funicular segments not clearly separated from clava, which seems funicle 2-segmented and clava 3-segmented (e.g., Fig. 9 g). Male antenna filiform, never with a differentiated clava (e.g., Fig. 9 f). Scrobal grooves in female always meeting below the frontofacial sutures.

Species included. Bouček (1965a) included P. eubius complex and P. metallicus in the epigonus -group, but also divided this group into two subgroups, the eubius- subgroup and the epigonus -subgroup. The eubius- subgroup includes P. eubius complex, P. nigritarsis (Thomson) and P. polanensis Bouček (Bouček 1965a) . The epigonus - subgroup includes P. epigonus (Walker), P. glabratus Bouček, P. metallicus, P. oviventris Bouček (Bouček 1965a) and also those species described by Dawah (1988) and Dawah et al. (2002). Hansson (2006) included a distinct species, P. sasae Hansson, in the eubius -group. We follow Bouček (1965a) and include them in the epigonus -group despite the possibilities of different separation for its members. Besides, we add a newly described species, P. prominentis, which seems closer to P. eubius .