Pusulissus Bourgoin & Wang, 2020

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Genus Pusulissus Bourgoin & Wang, 2020

Pusulissus Bourgoin & Wang, 2020: 73 .

Type species: P. phiaoacensis Bourgoin & Wang, 2020 , by original designation.

Flatiforma Meng, Qin & Wang, 2020 in Zhang et al. 2020: 353. Type species: F. guizhouensis Meng, Qin & Wang, 2020 , by original designation. Synonymized by Gnezdilov (2022a: 47).

Diagnosis

The genus Pusulissus can be differentiated from all other genera of Parahiraciina by the following combination of characters:

(1) the elongate frons (at least 1.2 times as long in midline as wide) with median carina extending from dorsal margin almost to frontoclypeal suture and without a black tubercle in the middle of the disc;

(2) the tegmina distinctly widest in the basal ⅓, not subparallel nor regularly rounded;

(3) the vertex with anterior margin in dorsal view only very slightly angularly convex or straight;

(4) the anal tube of male dorsoventrally flattened and wide at midlength;

(5) the aedeagus rather simple, with a single pair of ventral processes curved anterodorsad.

Note

The genus was described by Bourgoin & Wang (2020) to include two new species from North Vietnam (Cao Bang Province) and southern China (Guangxi Province), respectively. By synonymizing the genus Flatiforma Meng, Qin & Wang, 2020 under Pusulissus, Gnezdilov (2022a) transferred three additional species from China into the genus.

Species included

Pusulissus coronomensis Bourgoin & Wang, 2020

Pusulissus guizhouensis (Meng, Qin & Wang, 2020)

Pusulissus menglaensis (Che, Zhang & Wang, 2020)

Pusulissus phiaoacensis Bourgoin & Wang, 2020

Pusulissus quangninhensis sp. nov.

Pusulissus ruiliensis (Che, Zhang & Wang, 2020)