Menectetorus, Faust, 1894

Zimmerman, Elwood C., 1942, Curculionidae of Guam, Insects of Guam I, Honolulu, Hawaii: Bernice P. Bishop Museum, pp. 73-146 : 105

Genus MENECTETORUS Faust, 1894

Menectetorus Faust, Mus. Civ. stor. nat. Genova, Ann. 34: 284, 1894.

Pseudapries Lea, Soc. ent. Belg., Mem. 16: 182, 1908. (New synonym.)

The genus Menectetorus was described for the reception of a single species from Burma, and until now has remained monotypic. A cotype of the genotype ( M. luctuosus ) was included in some material sent to me for study from the National Museum by Mr. Buchanan. It is distinctly congeneric with typical species of Pseudapries , and that genus must fall as a synonym. Menectetorus luctuosus closely resembles the genotype of Pseudapries .

In Coleopterorum Catalogus (part 151, Cryptorrhynchinae , p. 70), Hustache has placed Pseudapries among the Colobodina in the Ithyporinae . The genus has nothing in common with the lthyporinae and should be placed next to Chaetectetorus in the Cryptorhynchina .

In 1909, Lea separated Pseudapries from Chaetectetorus on the comparative length of the metasternum and first abdominal segment, the metasternum being longer along the median line than the first ventrite in Pseudapries , shorter in Chaetectetorus . However, on the genotype of Chaetectetprus ( C. bifasciatus ) the metasternum is fully as long or slightly longer than the first ventrite; a better character is: second ventrite much longer than 3 plus 4, almost as long as 3 plus 4 plus 5 = Chaetectetorus ; and, second ventrite shorter than 3 plus 4 = Menectetorus . Following the use of this character, it becomes necessary to transfer the Fijian and Samoan Chaetectetorus to Menectetorus as follows: