Lepanus Balthasar 1966

Lepanus Balthasar, 1966 Lepanus Balthasar, 1966: 177; Matthews 1974: 100; Gunter & Weir 2019a: 41; Gunter et al. 2019: 459. Type species Lepanus ovatus Balthasar, 1966 (by original designation). Panelus (Parapanelus) Balthasar, 1966: 180. Type species Panelus (Parapanelus) gressitti Balthasar, 1966 (by monotypy). Synonymy by Matthews (1974). Phacosomoides Balthasar, 1966: 178. Type species Phacosomoides curvipes Balthasar, 1966 (by original designation). New synonymy. Paraphacosomoides Balthasar, 1968: 92. Replacement name for Phacosomoides Balthasar, 1966, not Phacosomoides Martínez & Pereira, 1959. New synonymy. Pseudophacosoma Paulian, 1975: 241. Unnecessary replacement name for Phacosomoides Balthasar, 1966. New synonymy. Oficanthon Paulian, 1985: 227. Type species Oficanthon mirabilis Paulian, 1985 (by original designation). Synonymy by Gunter et al. (2022). Comments. Paraphacosomoides is a monotypic genus here treated as a junior synonym of Lepanus. Both genera are described in Balthasar (1966), Lepanus appearing on page 177, Phacosomoides appearing on page 178. For a generic description of Lepanus, refer to Matthews (1974) and Gunter et al. (2019).