Stegaspidini Haupt, 1929

Synonyms (and unplaced invalid names)
Acuminatini Goding, 1926, Bocydides Amyot and Serville, 1843, Lycoderini Metcalf and Wade, 1965, Oedini Haupt, 1929, Stylocentrini Haupt, 1929
Selected references
Haupt 1929c
Metcalf and Wade 1965a
Deitz 1975a
Cryan and Deitz 1999a
Cryan and Deitz 1999b
Cryan and Deitz 2000a
Godoy, Miranda, and Nishida 2006a
Overview
Members of the tribe Stegaspidini show exceptional variety in their pronotal shapes. Cryan and Deitz (1999a) presented an overview and key to the genera of this tribe which occurs in Mexico, Central America, and South America. That publication and two others (Cryan and Deitz 1999b; Cryan and Deitz 2000a) provide reviews of the included genera.
Taxon images
Stegaspidini
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1.Bocydium
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2.Flexocentrus felinus
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3.Lirania bituberculata
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4.Lirania bituberculata
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5.Lycoderes ancora
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6.Lycoderides gradatus
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7. Lycoderides strumpel...
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8.Oeda (Oeda) inflata
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9.Smerdalea imminens
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10.Stegaspis
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11.Stylocentrus ancora
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12.Umbelligerus
 
Distribution
Neotropical and Nearctic regions: from Argentina to Central American and Trinadad, north into Nearctic Mexico.
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Diagnostic characters
Pronotum simple, horned, foliaceous, inflated, umbellate, or some combination of these; posterior process various, from reduced and terminating just over scutellum to extensive and terminating beyond abdominal apex, not entirely concealing scutellum. Forewing R2+3 fused with R1; only1 r-m crossvein present. Metathoracic femur without dorsal row of cucullate setae (exception: Smerdalea). Male abdominal tergum IX with lateral plate fused to pygofer basally and lacking posteroapical hook or lateral plate absent.
Taxonomic constituents
Prepared by
Lewis L. Deitz, Albino M. Sakakibara, Jason R. Cryan, Matthew S. Wallace, and Mark J. Rothschild, 8 February 2018.