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

By

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

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2016

Original Publication

ZooKeys

Volume

600

Pages

89-101

Subjects

Attelabidae , Callerya dielsiana , Deporaini , East Palaearctic , Eusproda , Fabaceae , legume , new genus , new species , Rhynchitinae , systematics

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sofia, Bulgaria Pensoft Publishers

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.600.6709

 

Abstract

A new genus Evemphyron Alonso-Zarazaga, Lv & Wang, gen. n., belonging to AttelabidaeRhynchitinae, 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.