Abstract:
The present paper is the first part of the monograph of the genus Clepsis and consists of the general part and the characteristics of the majority of species. The subgenera into which the genus was divided to date are synonymised and a new division into seven groups is proposed. Two of them, viz., the group of peritana and the group of slaintoni shall be discussed in a separate publication. Three species are described as new, one generic two subgeneric and 15 specific names are sunk as the synonyms.