Hoplopygothrix Schürhoff, 1933

Ratcliffe, Brett C., 2011, Hoplopygothrix Schürhoff (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Cetoniinae: Gymnetini) Revisited: A New Species and Country Record for Bolivia, The Coleopterists Bulletin 65 (1), pp. 63-66 : 63

Hoplopygothrix Schürhoff, 1933

Type Species. Gymnetis atropurpurea Schaum, 1841: 48 , by monotypy.

Diagnosis. The following combination of characters distinguishes Hoplopygothrix : head, pronotum, elytra, and pygidium with dense, short to moderately long setae; color of dorsum velutinous black to dark reddish brown, with or without creamcolored vittae or spots. Males have longitudinally sulcate abdominal sternites.

Hoplopygothrix is similar to Neocorvicoana Ratcliffe and Mico because they are both setose dorsally, a character not found in other genera of New World Gymnetini. Species of Hoplopygothrix differ from those of Neocorvicoana in that Hoplopygothrix males have a longitudinal sulcus in the middle of the abdominal sternites, but the sternites are normally convex in Neocorvicoana . Hoplopygothrix species are setose, easily separating them from similar-looking species of Hoplopyga Thomson which are glabrous.