Review of the Neotropical Piezonemus Jordan with type designations, description of Piezonemus espoch sp. nov. from Ecuador, and notes on the tribe Piesocorynini Valentine with keys to world genera (Coleoptera: Anthribidae) Author Trýzna, Miloš Mendel University in Brno, Faculty of Forestry and Wood Technology, Department of Forest Ecology, Zemědělská 3, CZ- 613 00 Brno, Czech Republic & Municipal Museum of Ústí nad Labem, Natural History Department, Masarykova 1000 / 3, CZ- 400 01 Ústí nad Labem, Czech Republic & Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Faculty of Tropical AgriSciences, Kamýcká 127, CZ- 165 00 Praha 6 - Suchdol, Czech Republic Author Caballero-Serrano, Verónica Escuela Superior Politécnica de Chimborazo (ESPOCH), Facultad de Recursos Naturales, Panamericana sur km 1 1 / 2, EC 060150, Riobamba, Ecuador Author Carrasco, Juan Carlos Escuela Superior Politécnica de Chimborazo (ESPOCH), Facultad de Recursos Naturales, Panamericana sur km 1 1 / 2, EC 060150, Riobamba, Ecuador & Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad (INABIO), EC 170502, Quito, Ecuador text Zootaxa 2024 2024-02-22 5415 3 401 435 http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5415.3.3 journal article 10.11646/zootaxa.5415.3.3 1175-5326 10693254 ED4058B9-70AC-4D69-81C4-3135BEE3FB91 Afrophaenotherion Frieser, 1984 , new tribal placement ( Figs 17–21 ) Afrophaenotherion Frieser, 1984: 176 . Rheinheimer 2004: 38 (catalogue), 219 (fig. 80 —dorsal habitus of A. aereum Frieser, 1984 ). Type species: Afrophaenotherion aereum Frieser, 1984 (by original designation). = Afrophaenotherium : Alonso-Zarazaga & Lyal 1999: 34 (incorrect subsequent spelling); Rheinheimer 2004: 38 (catalogue). The genus Afrophaenotherion is here transferred from Stenocerini to Piesocorynini . The genus corresponds to the morphological characters for the tribe Piesocorynini mentioned in the section „Recognition of the tribe Piesocorynini “ above. Currently the genus comprises two species: A. aereum and A. colonnellii Frieser, 2010 (both from South Africa ). Frieser (1984: 176) described the genus Afrophaenotherion based on one species, A. aereum Frieser, 1984 (by monotypy and original designation). Frieser pointed out the similarity of the newly described genus to Phaenotheriolum , from which it mainly differs by: 1) absence of dorsal transverse carina of pronotum; 2) elytra without striae, with punctures irregularly distributed over the entire surface of elytra. Other typical morphological characters are the shiny metallic surface of the body, and pronotum and elytra with setae only very sparse or absent.