Colpoptera Burmeister, 1835

Genus Colpoptera Burmeister, 1835 View in CoL

Type species: Colpoptera sinuata Burmeister, 1835 View in CoL

Diagnosis. (Abridged from Gnezdilov & O’Brien 2008). Body elongated, head about as broad as prothorax, eyes prominent. Vertex transverse, anterior margin truncate, posterior margin concave. Frons elongate, with distinct median carina. Pronotum narrow, anterior margin strongly convex, posterior margin concave. Mesonotum at midline longer than vertex + pronotum combine, bearing arcuate anterior transverse carinae and median carina. Forewings elongate and narrowed to rounded apex, with narrow hypocostal plate and many transverse veins apically, hindwings large and functional. Hind tibiae with single lateral tooth distally. Male pygofer with nearly straight hind margin (elongate process absent). Aedeagus relatively simple, bilaterally symmetrical, with elongated, usually bifurcated, subapical lateral processes (“phallobase lobe” of Gnezdilov & O’Brien 2008); and with pair of shorter, simple ventral processes. Gonostyli bearing broad capitulum, narrowing apically with broad lateral tooth. Anal tube elongated. Female sternite VII with rounded median process (Gnezdilov & O’Brien, fig. 59). Gonoplacs nearly triangular, fused medially; gonocoxa VIII with straight hind margin (Gnezdilov & O’Brien, figs. 60-62). Anal tube long and narrow, distinctly longer than gonoplacs Gnezdilov & O’Brien, fig. 57).