Revision of the Tribe Microtrachelizini Zimmerman, 1994, from Australia: New Taxa and Records (Insecta: Coleoptera, Brentidae)
Author
Mantilleri, Antoine
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Records of the Australian Museum
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3853/j.0067-1975.63.2011.1555
journal article
10.3853/j.0067-1975.63.2011.1555
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Howeius
n.gen.
Lord Howe Genus A,
Zimmerman, 1991: 157
;
1994: 215
.
Type
species
.
Howeius micropterus
n.sp.
Diagnosis
. Prorostrum longer than 0.5× the length of head + metarostrum + mesorostrum; mesorostrum with a small projection on either side under antennal base. Metasternum and sternites III–IV laterally not carinate. Sternites V–VI smooth, without basal notch; VII with two latero-apical depressions and no basal notch or apical fovea. Gonocoxites (
Fig. 33
) fused at base; apex with a strong sclerotized lateral tooth; styli apical, reduced.
Remarks
. The characters given in the diagnosis of the genus are not repeated in the description of the new species below.