Parateramocerus Mantilleri, 2015

Mantilleri, Antoine, 2016, Two New Species and New Records of Acratini (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea: Brentidae), The Coleopterists Bulletin 70 (2), pp. 243-248 : 243

Parateramocerus Mantilleri, 2015

Parateramocerus Mantilleri 2015b: 286 .

The genus Parateramocerus was created for

Parateramocerus goianus (Soares and Dias, 1971) from Brazil (State of Goiás), and differs from Teramocerus Schönherr, 1840 , mainly by characters of the male genitalia ( Mantilleri 2015b). In Parateramocerus , there is no single sclerite in the proximal part of the internal sac of the aedeagus, and the frena are missing. Examining unidentified material sent to me for study, I found two specimens from Brazil (State of Rondônia), one male and one female, that at first sight I attributed to an undescribed species of Teramocerus . But dissection of the male revealed that there was no single sclerite in the proximal part of the internal sac, nor any frena. These two character states led me to hypothesize that this species belongs to the genus Parateramocerus , despite several differences with the type species. The most obvious of these differences are the shorter prorostrum and the lack of two paramedian rods in the proximal part of the internal sac of the aedeagus.