Genus Stichopogon Loew

Stichopogon Loew, 1847: 499 (as subgenus of Dasypogon). Type species: Dasypogon elegantulus Wiedemann, 1820, by designation of Back (1909: 332). Discodamalis Karsch, 1888: 374;

Echinopogon Bezzi, 1910: 131;

Neopogon Bezzi, 1910: 147;

Cryptopogon White, 1918: 76;

Stilopogon Costa, 1884: 62 (Misspelling of Stichopogon).

Diagnosis. Small (4̄ 12 mm), dark coloured species, banded with grey tomentum; face short, frons markedly diverging dorsally, vertex saddle shaped, shallow; ocellar tubercle low; mystax restricted to the mouth margin or to lower third of face; antennal style short; proboscis short; scutellum with marginal setae or hairs; pulvilli present; fore and mid femora shorter and thicker than hind femora; abdomen flattened dorsoventrally, nearly as broad as the thorax anteriorly, with setae only on tergite l.