Zherikhinia Alonso-Zarazaga, 1999

Yasukawa, Satoshi, 2023, Zherikhinia matobai sp. nov., a second species of the genus Zherikhinia Alonso-Zarazaga (Coleoptera, Brentidae, Nanophyinae) from the Ryukyu Archipelago, Japan, Zootaxa 5380 (3), pp. 282-288 : 283

Genus Zherikhinia Alonso-Zarazaga, 1999

Psix Alonso-Zarazaga, 1989: 232 (nec Kozlov & Le, 1976) (type species: Nanophyes formosensis Koono 1930 (misidentification, Zherikhinia distylia Kantoh & Kojima, 2011 ), by original designation and monotypy).

Zherikhinia Alonso-Zarazaga : 1999: 12, 62 (catalogue); Kantoh & Kojima, 2011: 141–144 (redescription); Alonso-Zarazaga et al., 2017: 105 (catalogue).

Diagnosis. The genus Zherikhinia Alonso-Zarazaga, 1999 is characterized by the rostrum with five longitudinal carinae on the dorsal side; dorsally with eyes almost touching in middle and the interocular space with two rows of elongate scales; antenna with 4th segment slightly asymmetrical; club with 3rd segment a little longer than 2nd; femora with one large proximal and two to four small distal teeth; tibiae mucronate in male, unarmed in female; crenulation on 8th elytral interval absent; 10th elytral stria complete. Spiculum gastrale with a pair of lobes shaped like double-edged ax, slightly asymmetrical; spiculum ventrale approximately 1.7 times as long as gonocoxites; spermathecal duct convoluted near base; spermatheca C-shaped, with cornu, twisted apically around apex ( Kantoh & Kojima, 2011; Alonso-Zarazaga, 1989).