Microborus Blandford, 1897

Jordal, Bjarte H., 2017, Ancient diversity of Afrotropical Microborus: three endemic species - not one widespread, ZooKeys 710, pp. 33-42 : 35

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.710.14902

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:480537F7-3919-4A33-B164-AC0F688C4E61

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/6BA54BC7-A5C2-5B59-7FD4-56726A14CAB8

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scientific name

Microborus Blandford, 1897
status

 

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Type species.

Microborus boops Blandford, 1897

Diagnosis.

Small slender species with pronotum laterally costate, anteriorly unarmed; procoxae separated by broad prosternal process; eyes large, approximate below; antennal club globular without sutures, funicle 6-segmented; elytral interstriae 7 sharply raised on declivity and curved towards elytral interstriae 9 to form a postero-lateral costa on declivity.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Curculionidae