The Namaini, a new weevil tribe with six new genera from South Africa (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Entiminae)
Author
Meregalli, Massimo
Author
Borovec, Roman
Author
Cervella, Piero
Author
Santovito, Alfredo
Author
Toševski, Ivo
Author
Ottati, Sara
Author
Nakládal, Oto
text
Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society
2021
193
95
123
journal article
0024-4082
AE201413-3845-4F95-8E92-30C5C3B46766
CEDERBERGIA
BOROVEC & MEREGALLI
,
GEN. NOV.
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Type
species
:
Cederbergia indecora
Borovec & Meregalli
, here designated.
Figure 14.
Distribution map of the genus
Nama
. * = type species. Map data: Google Earth, Maxar Technologies, used according to Google Earth Terms of Service.
Diagnostic description
: Small
Namaini
1.8–2.6 mm
; rostrum continuous with head with U-shaped stria on epifrons; frons squamose; gena glabrous and smooth, subgena densely squamose; antennal sockets in dorsal view hardly visible as narrow furrows, laterally with ventral margin directed to ventral margin of eyes and dorsal margin poorly noticeable, vanishing before eyes; procoxal cavities touching anterior margin of pronotum; apical surface of metatibiae squamose; abdominal ventrites densely squamose; suture between ventrites 1 and 2 conspicuously arched; tegmen lacking parameres; female sternite VIII with long and slender apodeme terminating inside of plate, plate wider than long.
Etymology
:
Cederbergia
is derived from the Cederberg Mountains, rock formations located approximately
300 km
north of
Cape
Town, where the majority of the taxa attributed to this genus were found. The gender is feminine.
Included taxa and distribution
:
In addition to the
type
species, 12 additional taxa are included in
Cederbergia
,
based on the
mt-Cox1
analysis and/or their morphology.
They
are distributed in
South Africa
:
Western Cape
(
Fig. 17
)
.
CEDERBERGIA INDECORA
BOROVEC & MEREGALLI,
SP.