Euconnus minor (Franz) comb. n.

(Figs. 75–76)

Venezolanoconnus minor Franz, 1988: 83 .

Material studied. Holotype: 3: three labels: "Rancho Grande / b. Maracay, Vene- / zuela, lg. Franz" with "SA256" on the reverse side [white, printed; reverse handwritten], " Venezolanoconnus / minor m. Ƥ / det. H. Franz" [white, handwritten and printed], " Holotypus " [red, handwritten] (NHMW). Paratype: Ƥ, same data as for the holotype (NHMW).

Remarks. Despite the female symbol on the label and the data given in the original description (Franz 1988a), the holotype of Venezolanoconnus minor is a male. This small (BL of the holotype male 1.21 mm) species (Fig. 75) was originally included in Venezolanoconnus . However, despite a superficial similarity of the body shape, small head and antennae gradually thickening towards apices, V. m i n o r has the maxillary palpomere III of normal size (i.e., not enlarged); the pronotum with well-defined hind angles; two distinct pairs of pronotal lateral ante-basal foveae, of which the sublateral pair is connected by a transverse groove; the elytral base with indistinct, diffused elongate impression demarcating humeral callus; and the aedeagus (Fig. 76) with slender parameres. Within the current system of Cyrtoscydmini, these characters exclude V. minor from Venezolanoconnus and this species is tentatively assigned to Euconnus, until the taxonomy of the ' Euconnus complex' has been clarified.