Two new genera of Trachyphloeini with a key to the genera of small terricolous South African Trachyphloeini and Embrithini (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Entiminae)

Roman Borovec; Jiří Skuhrovec

doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4695.5.3

Two new genera of Trachyphloeini with a key to the genera of small terricolous South African Trachyphloeini and Embrithini (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Entiminae)

Zootaxa. 2019 Nov 12;4695(5):zootaxa.4695.5.3. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4695.5.3.

Authors

Roman Borovec¹, Jiří Skuhrovec

Affiliation

¹ Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences, Department of Forest Protection and Entomology, Kamýcká 1176, CZ-165 21 Praha 6-Suchdol, Czech Republic.. romanborovec@mybox.cz.

PMID: 31719334
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4695.5.3

Abstract

Two new genera, Barclayanthus Borovec Skuhrovec, gen. nov. and Janakius Borovec Skuhrovec, gen. nov., assigned to the tribe Trachyphloeini Lacordaire, 1863, are described for three South African species of weevil: Barclayanthus micros Borovec Skuhrovec, sp. nov., B. cooteri Borovec Skuhrovec, sp. nov. and Janakius sylvaticus Borovec Skuhrovec, sp. nov. All species are illustrated and keyed. The taxonomic status of each of the new genera is discussed, and compared with similar genera of Trachyphloeini and Embrithini Marshall, 1942. A key to known small terricolous South African genera of both Trachyphloeini and Embrithini is included.

Keywords: Coleoptera, Weevils, taxonomy, new genus, new species, South Africa, species discovery.

MeSH terms

Animals
Coleoptera*
Weevils*