Pseudoculio, Pelsue, Frank W. & O’Brien, Charles W., 2011

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 : 34

Pseudoculio gen. n.

Type species: Balaninus discreticoxis ( Marshall, 1919) , by present designation.

Diagnosis: This new genus with Curculio discreticoxis ( Marshall) Marshall (1919) from Malaysian Borneo as type species of the genus is placed in the new subtribe Labaninina. It is distinguished from the remainder of the Curculionini by the following: elytra lacking laterobasal process extending under basolateral pronotum; procoxae enclosed, with process of prosternum separating procoxae; male metatibiae with inner bifid process exceeding apex in some species, female with short mucro; profemur not distinctly bent basally; metafemur with small nodule on dorsal surface of clava; tarsal claws with short accessory tooth; anterior margin of prosternum emarginate; metepisternum rectangular (Fig. 20); sternum I fused medially with sternum II, laterally sutures evident; posterolateral margin of sternum II covering anterolateral margin of sternum III or not; sternum V large, convex, as long as or longer than sterna III+IV.