Hyperaspis Chevrolat, 1836

Genus Hyperaspis Chevrolat View in CoL in Dejean, 1836

Hyperaspis Chevrolat View in CoL in Dejean, 1836: 435.

Type species: Coccinella reppensis Herbst, 1783 , by subsequent designation of Thomson 1859: 161.

Oxynychus LeConte, 1850: 238 . Type species: Oxynychus moerens LeConte, 1850 , by monotypy. Synonymized by Dobzhansky 1941: 78.

Cinachyra Gorham, 1899: 263 View in CoL . Type species: Cinachyra picta Gorham, 1899 , by monotypy. New synonym.

Semra Özdikmen, 2007: 26 View in CoL . Replacement name nec. Cinachyra Sollas, 1866 View in CoL (Porifera). New synonym.

Diagnosis. Body surface of Hyperaspis appearing glabrous; antennae composed of 10 or 11 antennomeres; eye canthus absent; prosternal process usually with a pair of parallel carinae; protibiae usually slender, rarely flanged; elytral epipleuron excavated for reception of mid and hind femoral apices; postcoxal lines on the ventrite 1 incomplete; posterior margin of apical ventrite in males usually modified; penis guide asymmetric; parameres of different length; coxites in females sub-rectangular, basally excavated; spermatheca complex, usually composed of two parts.