Archariina

Pelsue, Frank W. & O’Brien, Charles W., 2011, A redefinition of the Curculionini of the world, with a key to subtribes and genera, and two new genera: Pseudoculio and Megaoculis (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Curculioninae), Zootaxa 3102, pp. 27-49 : 30

Archariina Pelsue & O’Brien, subtr. n.

Type: Archarius Gistel, 1856 , by present designation

Diagnosis: The genus Archarius Gistel (1856) status restored by Alonso-Zarazaga and Lyal (1999) was proposed as Balanobius Jekel (1861) and later placed as a subgenus of Curculio Roelofs (1874) and proposed as Longifustulia Hong and Wang (1987). We propose to separate the genera Archarius , Koreoculio , and Pagumia in a new subtribe based on the following characteristics: small size, three millimeters or less; antennal club more oval than acuminate somewhat tear-shaped; distinctive pronotum widest in middle as measured in dorsal view, with base narrower by 0.1 mm than middle; base of pronotum subsinuate; hind femur with small tooth; mesosternal intercoxal process somewhat depressed not visible in lateral view; pygidium covered by apex of elytra in dorsal view, but males in posterior view taking on various characteristics, and in female one diagonostic characteristic defining species, not shared by all Curculionini ; occurs primarily in the Palearctic and Oriental regions.