Hemicardiacus Plummer, 1945

Selected references
Plummer 1945a
Funkhouser 1951a
Metcalf and Wade 1965a
Deitz 1975a
McKamey 1998a
Wallace 2010a
Wallace 2011a
Overview
Wallace (2011a) discussed this genus in his overview and morphological phylogenetic analysis of the Smiliini, Telamonini, and their relatives.
Taxon history
markup
Although formerly associated with either the tribe Telamonini or Smiliini, the Neotropical genus Hemicardiacus is at present of uncertain position (incertae sedis) within the subfamily Smiliinae (Wallace 2011a).
Taxon images
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Hemicardiacus
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1. Hemicardiacus saund... ↴
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2. Hemicardiacus saundersi, holot... ↴
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3. Hemicardiacus sau... ↴
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4. Hemicardiacus saundersi, holotype... ↴
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5. Hemicardiacus saundersi, holotype... ↴
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6.Hemicardiacus saundersi
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7.Hemicardiacus saundersi
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8.Hemicardiacus saundersi
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9.Hemicardiacus saundersi male
 
Distribution
Neotropical region: Central America.
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Diagnostic characters
Pronotum highly elevated and foliaceous; humeral angles enlarged, long and often narrowed with anterior margin contacting lateral margin of eye. Similar to Antianthe except pronotum more highly elevated and with humeral angles extremely long.
Host plants
Fagaceae: Quercus (Wallace 2011a).
Prepared by
Matthew S. Wallace, Lewis L. Deitz, and Mark J. Rothschild, 24 June 2015.