Subgenus Hemipraocis Kulzer, 1958

Subgeneric characteristics. Species of Praocis (Hemipraocis) are characterized by a wider body shape, conspicuously convex, clypeal suture not covered by frons; prosternum horizontal, with anterior margin wider, rounded, lacking edge; width of pronotum twice its length and widest at base; lateral margin of pronotum and elytron with one row of long setae, suture flat (Kulzer 1958).