Eur. J. Entomol. 116: 201-211, 2019 | DOI: 10.14411/eje.2019.022

Coniophloeus, a new genus of Embrithini from South Africa, with description of four new species (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Entiminae)Original article

Roman BOROVEC
Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences, Department of Forest Protection and Entomology, Kamýcká 1176, 165 21 Praha 6 - Suchdol, Czech Republic; e-mail: romanborovec@mybox.cz

A new genus, Coniophloeus gen. n., is described for five species of South African weevils known from the Western and Eastern Cape and assigned to the tribe Embrithini Marshall, 1942: Coniophloeus squalidus (Boheman, 1842) comb. n. (type species, transferred from the genus Trachyphloeus Germar, 1817 and tribe Trachyphloeini Lacordaire, 1863), C. alternans sp. n., C. oberprieleri sp. n., C. robustus sp. n. and C. obrieni sp. n. All five species are illustrated and keyed.

Keywords: Curculionidae, Entiminae, Embrithini, Coniophloeus, new genus, new species, South Africa

Received: October 17, 2018; Revised: April 29, 2019; Accepted: April 29, 2019; Published online: June 20, 2019  Show citation

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BOROVEC, R. (2019). Coniophloeus, a new genus of Embrithini from South Africa, with description of four new species (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Entiminae). EJE, 116, Article 201-211. https://doi.org/10.14411/eje.2019.022
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