Bagous deceptus

ROBERTO CALDARA, CHARLES W. O’BRIEN & MASSIMO MEREGALLI, 2017, A phylogenetic analysis of the aquatic weevil tribe Bagoini (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) based on morphological characters of adults, Zootaxa 4287 (1), pp. 1-63 : 37

7. Bagous deceptus group

Diagnosis. Body very small, at most just longer than 2.0 mm. Penis body with dorsal surface at base truncate (char. 64.1). Sclerites complex within tube of penis body with a pair of submedian, subapical sclerites well separated from each other (char. 84.1).

Remarks. The single species included in this group was previously included in the B. pygmaeus group (Askevold et al. 1994; O’Brien et al. 1994; O’Brien & Askevold 1995). It differs from all these species, however, by the shape of the penis and the presence of a pair of sclerites in the endophallus.

Species included. ORR: * B. deceptus O'Brien, 1995 .