Hovorigenium, Ivie & Spiessberger, 1956

Ivie, Michael A. & Spiessberger, Erich L., 1956, Clarification of the Correct Original Spelling of Caecomenimopsis jamaicensis Dajoz (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae: Diaperinae: Gnathidiini: Anopidiina), The Coleopterists Bulletin 61 (2), pp. 159-163 : 159-163

Hovorigenium , new genus

Type species: Hovorigenium ecuadorense , new species (present designation).

Description. Small, slender, elongate-ovoid, flattened, strongly subcylindrical, feebly transversely convex dorsally and ventrally; body generally punctate with each puncture with a single stout adpressed or recumbent seta; head with frontovertex longitudinally depressed between large eyes; frontoclypeus emarginate; distal portion of bilobed membranous anteclypeus visible; eyes relatively large, inner margins slightly converging dorsally; antennae serrate from antennomere 5, antennomeres 5–11 each with one large ventral fossa containing sensory sensilla; pronotum much wider than long, widest in anterior half; disc transversely flattened, depressed in posterolateral portions; scutellum pentagonal; elytra wider at humeri than pronotum, lateral margins subparallel, before narrowing to narrow, separately rounded, finely serrate apices; disc costate; epipleuron narrowing from base and extending well beyond midpoint of elytral length; prosternal process trilobed; abdominal ventrites with sutures entire, feebly convex; length of 1+2. 3+4+5; 5 attenuate; femora narrowly fusiform; tibiae with two short distal spines; metatibia with setal comb on external margin (Fig. 7); tarsi with ventral pulvilli on tarsomeres 1–4; 5 with claws appendiculate (Fig. 8).

Etymology. The neuter genus-group name is a combination of the family name of Frank T. Hovore and the ending of Trigonogenium , to honor Frank’s contributions in many groups of Coleoptera , primarily of course Cerambycidae and Pleocomidae , both through his collecting and his publications, as well as to refer to the perceived relationship to the nominate genus of Trigonogeniini.

Comments. Hovorigenium can be distinguished from the species of Trigonogenium as follows: