Dendrochilus Schedl, 1957

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Dendrochilus Schedl, 1957

Type species. Dendrochilus strombosiopsis Schedl, 1957 . (Figs. 49, 52, 55)

Diagnosis. Small, elongated species. Funiculus 5-segment- ed, scapus at least as long as the funiculus in both sexes, in females with a fine tuft of setae on its dorsal side; antennal club elongated, corneous on both sides, shiny and suture-free. Last ventrite elongated, bottle-shaped and truncated.

Proventriculus with closing teeth compact and serrated.

Included species:

Dendrochilus strombosiopsis Schedl 1957 .

Excluded species: D endrochilus arundinarius Schedl, 1957 , Dendrochilus elongatulus Schedl, 1977 , Dendrochilus filum Schedl, 1977 , Dendrochilus jasminae Schedl, 1957 , Dendrochilus mikaniae Schedl, 1957 Dendrochilus robustus Schedl, 1957 , all to Afromicracis ; Thamnurgus villersi Lepesme, 1942 to Xylocleptes Ferrari , and Dendrochilus intermedius Schedl, 1977 , to Acanthotomicus Blandford.

Distribution. Congo, Tanzania.

Remarks. The type species differs from other species previously included in this genus by the elongate, shiny and suture-free antennal club, and by the peculiar bottleneck-shaped apical part of the last ventrite. Two very similar, but undescribed, species grouped as the sister to Afromicracis by maximum support. Both genera share the presence of a long scapus in both sexes, 5-segmented funicle, and a reduced Yshaped tegmen. Most species assigned to Dendrochilus by Schedl belong to Afromicracis (see below).