Eurypeplus KC & Pollock, 2025

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 : 13

Eurypeplus KC & Pollock , gen. nov.

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Types species: Eurypeplus quadrimaculatus KC & Pollock , gen. nov., sp. nov., by present designation.

Derivation of generic name: The name Eurypeplus (masculine) is based on the superficial resemblance of the type species of this genus to members of the mycterid subfamily Eurypinae .

Adult Description: Head wide; eyes located posterior of midlength of head, as in Hemipeplus ; cranial neck present, as in the species of Hemipeplinae ; pronotum elongate and not wide, cordate, campanulate, transverse, or subquadriform; in the type specimen, which is a female, a visible fovea present medially on the fourth abdominal ventrite; body elongate, but more dorsoventrally convex than in Hemipeplus or Holopeplus , somewhat resembling Eurypinae ; elytra widened at midlength, no visible apical patches; prosternal process short, as in most Hemipeplus ; hypomeral edges broadly separated; mesanepisterna broad and flat, as in Hemipeplinae ; mesosternum narrower and more medially raised than in the other two genera; abdominal process not as narrow and pointed as in other Hemipeplinae , rather wide, but equally long; scutellar shield raised, as in Mycterinae , but other characters do not line up with Mycterinae . Taxonomically, it appears rather to be somewhere in between Eurypinae and Hemipeplinae , but we prefer not to erect a separate subfamily, Eurypeplinae. Based on its ventral characters and rather elongate body, we classify it within Hemipeplinae as the third genus in this subfamily.