Hemipeplus reichertae Pollock, 1997

Kc, Sajan & Pollock, Darren A., 2025, Review of the Hemipeplinae (Coleoptera: Mycteridae) fauna of the world with descriptions of twenty-nine new species, Zootaxa 5574 (1), pp. 1-140 : 57-58

Hemipeplus reichertae Pollock, 1997

(Figs 25, 63)

FIGURE 25. Hemipeplus reichertae Pollock, 1997 (Paratype). A. Dorsal habitus (with scale bar); B. Dorsal head and prothorax; C. Lateral view of head and prothorax.

Hemipeplus sp. (?). Kolbe, 1919: 200.

Hemipeplus reichertae Pollock, 1997: 89 Figs 6, 17, 21.

Type Material. Holotype, sex unknown, in MRAC ( Congo); not studied, see Pollock (1997) for details. One paratype, female, labeled: ‘ Sangmelima, Cameroons, A. I. Good. / April 1933 / Carn. Mus. Acc 10080 / [blue label] PARATYPE Hemipeplus reichertae Pollock’, in CMNH (Fig. 25) .

Diagnosis. Hemipeplus reichertae can be distinguished by its large eyes, lack of temples, subcordiform pronotum without prominent posterior lobe, and pale color. Hemipeplus reichertae has the following diagnostic features: temples absent; scape short, submoniliform, apically dilated and externally produced on one side; eyes large (about as long as scape + pedicel + antennomere III), wide and convex; pronotum subcordiform, wide and flat with a distinct anterior emargination; anterior half wider than posterior; anterolateral angles strongly produced, broadly rounded; pronotal pad present but not very prominent; posterolateral angles obtuse, rounded; pronotal lobe slight without median notch; scutellar shield subheptagonal, transverse, about twice as wide as long; body long, slightly widened at apical half of elytra; elytra slightly convex; color uniformly brown; distribution: west-central Africa ( Pollock 1997).

Geographical Distribution (Fig. 63). Cameroon, Democratic Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Namibia, Republic of Congo ( Pollock 1997).