Miarus Schoenherr, 1826

Skuhrovec, Jiri, Gosik, Rafal, Caldara, Roberto, Tosevski, Ivo, Letowski, Jacek & Szwaj, Ewelina, 2018, Morphological characters of immature stages of Palaearctic species of Cleopomiarus and Miarus and their systematic value in Mecinini (Coleoptera, Curculionidae, Curculioninae), ZooKeys 808, pp. 23-92 : 69

Genus Miarus Schoenherr, 1826

Description.

Measurements (in mm). Body length: 3.20-4.00. Body width: 1.90-2.70. Head width: 0.55-0.70.

Body moderately slender or stout. Smooth, dark brown or black spotted cuticle. Rostrum long or very long, from 2.3 up to 3.5 times as long as wide, reached up to meso- or metacoxae. Antennae elongated. Pronotum from 2.1 up to 2.5 times as wide as long. Mesonotum distinctly shorter than metanotum. Abdominal segments I–V of equal length; abdominal segments VI and VII diminish gradually; abdominal segment VIII almost semicircle; abdomen segment IX distinctly reduced. Spiracles on abdominal segments placed dorsolaterally: on abdominal segments I–V functional; and on segment VI atrophic on next ones invisible. Urogomphi (ur) slender and elongated, conical, each of them with sclerotized apex.

Chaetotaxy: setae piliform, in a different size. Head capsule with one vs, one sos, and 3-4 os. Rostrum with one pas and three rs (placed medially and apically). Prono tum with: two as, two ds, two sls, one ls and three pls. All setae of prothorax almost equal in length. Dorsal parts of meso- and metathorax with three setae placed medially. Apex of each femora with one fes. Abdominal segments I–VIII with two setae laterally and sometimes 3-4 short setae ventrally. Dorsal parts of abdominal segments I–VII with 4-5 setae, and abdominal segment VIII with 3-4 setae dorsally. Abdominal segment IX with 4-6 micro-setae ventrally.