Preliminary re-examination of genus-level taxonomy of the pollen beetle subfamily Meligethinae (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae) Author Audisio, Paolo Dipartimento di Biologia Animale e dell’Uomo, Sapienza Rome University, via A. Borelli, 50, I- 00161 Rome, Italy; e-mail: paolo. audisio @ uniroma 1. it Author Cline, Andrew Richard Plant Pest Diagnostics Center, California Department of Food and Agriculture, 3294 Meadowview Road, Sacramento, CA 95832 - 1448, USA; e-mail: acline @ cdfa. ca. gov Author Biase, Alessio De Dipartimento di Biologia Animale e dell’Uomo, Sapienza Rome University, viale Dell’Università, 32, I- 00185 Rome, Italy; e-mail: alessio. debiase @ uniroma 1. it Author Antonini, Gloria Dipartimento di Biologia Animale e dell’Uomo, Sapienza Rome University, via A. Borelli, 50, I- 00161 Rome, Italy; e-mail: paolo. audisio @ uniroma 1. it Author Mancini, Emiliano Dipartimento di Scienze di Sanità Pubblica, Sapienza Rome University, Piazzale Aldo Moro 5, I- 00185, Rome, Italy; e-mail: emiliano. mancini @ uniroma 1. it Author Trizzino, Marco Dipartimento di Biologia Animale e dell’Uomo, Sapienza Rome University, via A. Borelli, 50, I- 00161 Rome, Italy; e-mail: paolo. audisio @ uniroma 1. it Author Costantini, Lorenzo Museo Nazionale d’Arte Orientale, Servizio di Bioarcheologia e Microscopia, via Merulana 248, I- 00185 Rome, Italy; e-mail: l. costantin @ mclink. it Author Strika, Sirio Museo Nazionale d’Arte Orientale, Servizio di Bioarcheologia e Microscopia, via Merulana 248, I- 00185 Rome, Italy; e-mail: l. costantin @ mclink. it Author Lamanna, Francesco Dipartimento di Biologia Animale e dell’Uomo, Sapienza Rome University, via A. Borelli, 50, I- 00161 Rome, Italy; e-mail: paolo. audisio @ uniroma 1. it Author Cerretti, Pierfilippo Dipartimento di Biologia Animale e dell’Uomo, Sapienza Rome University, via A. Borelli, 50, I- 00161 Rome, Italy; e-mail: paolo. audisio @ uniroma 1. it text Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 2009 2009-12-15 49 2 341 504 journal article 10.5281/zenodo.5319334 0374-1036 5319334 Lucanopria wagneri Audisio & Cline , sp. nov. ( Figs. 38 a–k ) Type material. HOLOTYPE : J, RWANDA : community of Nyakabuye, Cyamudongo cloud montane rain forest, x.1993 , 1700 m , T.Wagner leg., by insecticidal canopy fogging of Carapa grandiflora Sprague (Meliaceae) (ZFMK). PARATYPES : 6 JJ 5 ♀♀ , same data as holotype (ZFMK, CAR, NMPC). Description and diagnosis. See above generic description of Lucanopria gen. nov. Body length 1.6–2.0 mm; width 0.7–1.0 mm; body moderately flat and elongate, orangeyellowish, with infuscate scutellum, and a slightly darker elytral circum-scutellar area in some specimens; lateral sides of pronotum markedly paler ( Fig. 38a ). Morphological male variability as described above. Male genitalia as described above ( Figs. 38f–g ). Female genitalia as described above ( Fig. 38h ). Etymology. This new species is named for a German entomologist, our friend Thomas Wagner (Koblenz), a renowned specialist on Chrysomelidae and collector of the entire type series. Biology. See generic section above. Geographic distribution. This new species is known only from the above listed type material collected in Rwanda .