Afrophloeus

Borovec, Roman & Oberprieler, Rolf G., 2013, Afrophloeus, a new genus of African weevils of the tribe Embrithini (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Entiminae), with description of a new species and notes on the composition of Embrithini, Zootaxa 3693 (3), pp. 365-378 : 372

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.223111

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:F145FA89-A00B-4A85-A7FB-7C1F4680ACA3

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6149356

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03E78786-FF83-643A-1891-D08C4EC1F80E

treatment provided by

Plazi

scientific name

Afrophloeus
status

 

Key to the species of Afrophloeus View in CoL

1 Funicles 7-segmented; scapes slender, evenly dilated towards apex; rostrum parallel-sided; spermatheca with slender corpus, well-differentiated, broad, short ramus and undifferentiated nodulus......................... A. squamifer (Boheman) View in CoL

- Funicles 6- to 4-segmented; scapes more robust, more sharply dilated at apical third and then narrowing towards apex; rostrum at base shortly abruptly widened, then slightly tapering anteriad; spermatheca with broad corpus, without visible ramus but with differentiated, curved nodulus...................................................................... 2

2 (1) Scapes distinctly dilated at apical third but not forming a distinct lobe at posterior edge; pronotum 1.7–1.8 x broader than long; elytral posthumeral callus on interstria 9 in dorso-lateral view prominent A. spathulatus (Boheman) View in CoL

- Scapes strongly abruptly dilated at apical third forming a large, flat lobe at posterior edge; pronotum 1.9–2.1 x wider than long; elytral posthumeral callus on interstria 9 in dorso-lateral view almost invisible A. dilaticornis View in CoL sp. n.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Curculionidae

SubFamily

Entiminae

Tribe

Embrithini

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