Evemphyron sinense, a new genus and species infesting legume seedpods in China (Coleoptera, Attelabidae, Rhynchitinae)

Xiangyang Lv; Miguel A Alonso-Zarazaga; Zhishu Xiao; Zhiliang Wang; Runzhi Zhang

doi:10.3897/zookeys.600.6709

Evemphyron sinense, a new genus and species infesting legume seedpods in China (Coleoptera, Attelabidae, Rhynchitinae)

Zookeys. 2016 Jun 22:(600):89-101. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.600.6709. eCollection 2016.

Authors

Xiangyang Lv¹, Miguel A Alonso-Zarazaga², Zhishu Xiao³, Zhiliang Wang⁴, Runzhi Zhang⁵

Affiliations

¹ State Key Laboratory of Integrated Management of Pest Insects and Rodents, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China; College of Life Science, Hebei University, Baoding, 071002, China; Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Evolution, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 10010, China.
² Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Evolution, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 10010, China; Departamento de Biodiversidad y Biología Evolutiva, Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (CSIC), C/. José Gutiérrez Abascal, 2, E-28006 Madrid, Spain.
³ State Key Laboratory of Integrated Management of Pest Insects and Rodents, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China.
⁴ Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Evolution, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 10010, China; Museum of Beijing Forestry University, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, China.
⁵ Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Evolution, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 10010, China.

Abstract

A new genus Evemphyron Alonso-Zarazaga, Lv & Wang, gen. n., belonging to Attelabidae Rhynchitinae, is described. Its single species, Evemphyron sinense Alonso-Zarazaga, Lv & Wang, sp. n., was reared from larvae found inside seed pods of the legume Callerya dielsiana (Fabaceae, Millettieae) in Sichuan Province (China). The species is figured and placed in the Deporaini because of the presence of minute labial palpi, the strongly crescentic apex of the postmentum, and the apodemes of male IX sternite and female VIII sternite curved sinistro-anterially near their cephalic end. It shows 3-segmented labial palpi and male sex patches on the procoxae, characters that suggest a basal position in the tribe.

Keywords: Attelabidae; Callerya dielsiana; Deporaini; Eusproda; Fabaceae; Rhynchitinae; east Palaearctic; legume; new genus; new species; systematics.