Iberorhyzobius Raimundo & Canepari

Raimundo, Armando, Canepari, Claudio, Mendel, Zvi, Branco, Manuela & Franco, José Carlos, 2006, Iberorhyzobius Raimundo & Canepari gen. nov., for Coccidula rondensis Eizaguirre (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae), Zootaxa 1312, pp. 49-58 : 50

Iberorhyzobius Raimundo & Canepari gen. nov.

( Figs. 1–2 )

Description. Body elongate oval, depressed, with sparse and semi­erect hair ( Figs. 1–2 ). Head with eyes not pubescent, coarsely faceted; frons 4 times as wide as eye diameter, clypeus not extended onto eye. Antennae almost reaching pronotal base; antennal club slender, loose, with last three segments forming a club. Terminal segment of maxillary palpus narrow, securiform. Labium transverse, clypeus rounded. Pronotum partially covering the eyes, twice as wide as long. Lateral margin of pronotum and elytra large; fine punctuation on pronotum and elytra; lateral margin of pronotum and elytra large and subhorizontal; fine punctuation on pronotum and elytra. Prosternal process not carinate ( Fig. 2 ). Legs slender, apex of meso­ and metafemora extended beyond elytral margin; tarsal claws with square, basal tooth. Postcoxal line on first abdominal ventrite complete arching up 2/5 of the sternite length. Genital sternite of male feebly emarginated.

Depositories

EFN Estação Florestal Nacional, Oeiras, Portugal (curator: E. Sousa) MSNM Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano (curator: F. Rigato) BMNH British Museum of Natural History, London (curator: M. Brendell) PCAR Private Collection of A. Raimundo

PCCC Private Collection of C. Canepari

Figures

FIGURE 1. Iberorhyzobius rondensis (Eizaguirre, 2004), a—dorsal view; b—antenna.

FIGURE 2. Iberorhyzobius rondensis (Eizaguirre, 2004) external morphological structures, SEM. a—dorsal view, b—frontal view, c—prosterno, d—antennae, e—elytral pubescence, f—elytral pubescence: (i) thinner and abundant hairs and (ii) thicker and scattered hairs