Genus Nephus Mulsant, 1846

Diagnosis. Body elongate oval to oval, weakly convex, dorsum covered with pubescence (Figs 1a, 2a, 3a, 4a–b, 5a–b, 6a, 7a, 8a). Antennae are composed of 10 or 11 antennomeres (first and second antennomeres partly or fully fused) (Figs 1e, 2d, 3d, 4e, 7e, 8e). Prosternal process relatively wide, with surface almost flat, and without carinae (Figs 1c, 7c, 8c). Abdomen with six ventrites; abdominal postcoxal lines incomplete laterally, slightly recurved apically (Figs 1d, 2c, 3c, 4d, 5d, 6c, 7d, 8d). Tarsi with 3 tarsomeres.