Hyperaspis Chevrolat 1836

Genus Hyperaspis Chevrolat in Dejean, 1836 Hyperaspis Chevrolat 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. Type species: Cinachyra picta Gorham, 1899, by monotypy. New synonym. Semra Özdikmen, 2007: 26. Replacement name nec. Cinachyra Sollas, 1866 (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.