Basidissus Fairmaire, 1897

Trýzna, Miloš & Baňař, Petr, 2013, A new species of the genus Basidissus (Coleoptera: Anthribidae) from east Madagascar, with a key to species, Zootaxa 3721 (1), pp. 71-78 : 72

Basidissus Fairmaire, 1897

Type species: Basidissus cristatus Fairmaire, 1897: 192 , by original designation.

Recognition. Head relatively short ( Figs. 1 , 7 , 15 ), rostrum flat, without longitudinal carina, with only weak transversal impression in the middle, sides of rostrum parallel. Eyes large, convex ( Fig. 15 ). Scrobes not visible dorsally, scape slightly hidden in scrobe in dorsal view. Antennae reaching to posterior margin of pronotum in both sexes. Funicle thin, club robust. Pronotum transverse with one, two or three tufts of setae, transverse carina antebasal, not reaching the middle of prothorax. Elytra broadly oval with sub-basal, median and preapical tufts of erect setae or tubercles.

Figures

FIGURES 1 – 6. Madagascan Basidissus species, dorsal view, 1, B. bendai sp. nov., female holotype (3.0 mm); 2, B. cirrifer Frieser, 2000 (7.2 mm); 3, B. cristatus Fairmaire, 1897 (4.9 mm); 4, B. fulvitarsis Frieser, 2007 (4.6 mm); 5, B. incilis Frieser, 2000 (6.1 mm); 6, B. senilis Frieser, 2000 (6.5 mm).

FIGURES 7 – 12. Madagascan Basidissus species, lateral view, 7, B. bendai sp. nov., female holotype (3.0 mm); 8, B. cirrifer Frieser, 2000 (7.2 mm); 9, B. cristatus Fairmaire, 1897 (4.9 mm); 10, B. fulvitarsis Frieser, 2007 (4.6 mm); 11, B. incilis Frieser, 2000 (6.1 mm); 12, B. senilis Frieser, 2000 (6.5 mm).

FIGURES 15 – 21. Basidissus bendai sp. nov., female holotype: 15, head, dorsal view; 16, pronotum, lateral view, scheme; 17, proximal part of pronotum, dorsal view, scheme; 18, right antenna; 19, hemisternites, ventral view; 20, toothed plate with stylus, lateral view, seen in situ; 21, toothed plate, dorsal view, seen in situ. Scale bars in mm.