Subgenus Bagous Germar, 1817

Bagous Germar, 1817, Germar, 1817: 340 (type species: Rhynchaenus binodulus Gyllenhal, 1813). Brisout de Barneville 1863: 491. Tournier 1874: 103. Schilsky 1907: D. Hustache 1930: 205. Neresheimer & Wagner 1930: 261. Klima 1934: 110. Hoffmann 1954: 712, 714. Dieckmann 1964: 88; 1983: 352. O’Brien & Wibmer 1982: 92. O'Brien & Askevold 1992: 338; 1995: 12. O'Brien et al. 1994: 8. Caldara & O'Brien 1998: 137. Alonso-Zarazaga & Lyal 1999: 88. Caldara 2013: 172. Abagous Sharp, 1917a: 27 (type species: Rhynchaenus lutulentus Gyllenhal, 1813). Hoffmann 1954: 717, 740 (subgen. of Bagous). Dieckmann 1983: 354, 369 (subgen. of Bagous). Caldara 2013: 172.

Himeniphades Kôno, 1934: 245 (type species: Himeniphades bipunctatus Kôno, 1934). Caldara 2013: 172.

Diagnosis. Penis body usually widest at base, thence slightly tapered at least in basal 2/3, sometimes with short, ventrobasal plate extending between apodemes (char. 70.1 and 70.2) and with endophallus within tube of penis body with a pair of lateral concentrations of numerous fine denticles or sparse large denticles (char. 87.1 and 87.2). Penis apodemes long (char. 110.0).

Remarks. This subgenus includes all the species that are not part of the other subgenera. Some of the species of this subgenus can be referred to some well characterized species-groups, while the remaining species are morphologically quite heterogeneous, sharing only a single genital character.

Seven species belonging to the subgenus Bagous were available for the mtCOI analysis, and they clustered in a different clade from the species belonging to subgenus Macropelmus, with weak support (62% pp). Within this clade, two monophyletic groups were distinguished, that match only in part the composition of the morphological species groups.