Zherikhinia matobai sp. nov., a second species of the genus Zherikhinia Alonso-Zarazaga (Coleoptera, Brentidae, Nanophyinae) from the Ryukyu Archipelago, Japan
Author
Yasukawa, Satoshi
0000-0003-2243-5534
Entomological Laboratory, Graduate school of Bioresource and Bioenvironmental Science, Kyushu University, 744 Motôka, Nishi-ku, Fukuoka, 819 - 0395 Japan & The Kyushu University Museum, 6 - 10 - 1 Hakozaki, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka, 812 - 8581 Japan. cobalocephalus. yasukawa @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 2243 - 5534
cobalocephalus.yasukawa@gmail.com
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Zootaxa
2023
2023-11-30
5380
3
282
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https://www.mapress.com/zt/article/download/zootaxa.5380.3.5/52374
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10.11646/zootaxa.5380.3.5
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Genus
Zherikhinia
Alonso-Zarazaga, 1999
Psix
Alonso-Zarazaga, 1989: 232
(nec
Kozlov & Le, 1976
) (
type
species:
Nanophyes formosensis
Koono 1930
(misidentification,
Zherikhinia distylia
Kantoh & Kojima, 2011
), by original designation and monotypy).
Zherikhinia
Alonso-Zarazaga
: 1999: 12, 62 (catalogue);
Kantoh & Kojima, 2011: 141–144
(redescription);
Alonso-Zarazaga
et al
., 2017: 105
(catalogue).
Diagnosis.
The genus
Zherikhinia
Alonso-Zarazaga, 1999
is characterized by the rostrum with five longitudinal carinae on the dorsal side; dorsally with eyes almost touching in middle and the interocular space with two rows of elongate scales; antenna with 4th segment slightly asymmetrical; club with 3rd segment a little longer than 2nd; femora with one large proximal and two to four small distal teeth; tibiae mucronate in male, unarmed in female; crenulation on 8th elytral interval absent; 10th elytral stria complete. Spiculum gastrale with a pair of lobes shaped like double-edged ax, slightly asymmetrical; spiculum ventrale approximately 1.7 times as long as gonocoxites; spermathecal duct convoluted near base; spermatheca C-shaped, with cornu, twisted apically around apex (
Kantoh & Kojima, 2011
;
Alonso-Zarazaga, 1989
).