Parapaulipalpina Gnaspini

Gnaspini, Pedro & Peck, Stewart B., 2019, Redescription of the ‘ older Adelopsis’ species (Coleoptera: Leiodidae: Cholevinae: Ptomaphagini) based on the analysis of type specimens, Zootaxa 4696 (1), pp. 1-62 : 47

Genus Parapaulipalpina Gnaspini

Parapaulipalpina Gnaspini, 1996: 524 . Type species: Parapaulipalpina dentata Gnaspini (orig. des.).

= Viruana Salgado, 2013a: 89 (as subgenus of Excelsiorella Salgado [2008], synonymized under Adelopsis Portevin [1907] by Gnaspini et al., 2016: 274); Gnaspini et al., 2016: 274 syn. Type species: Excelsiorella tambopata Salgado (orig. des.).

Besides the typical characters of the tribe, species of Parapaulipalpina are characterized by having (based on Gnaspini, 1996): Small body. Antenna somewhat short. Aedeagus elongate, apical orifice dorsally subterminal and cutting the apex of the aedeagus slightly left from the median axis; the dorsal opening being somewhat oval in shape; aedeagus somewhat S-shaped in dorsal view; flagellum elongate, longer than the aedeagus; basal bulb of the flagellum placed outside the aedeagus in rest position. Genital segment globular, spiculum gastrale straight and somewhat long. Male ventrites bear no projections. Spermatheca bearing a 2-turns coil and a long apical bulb.