Pseudolanurgus Jordal, 2021

Jordal, Bjarte H., 2021, New species and records of Pseudolanurgus (Coleoptera: Curculionidae, Scolytinae) from Tanzania and Madagascar, Zootaxa 5072 (6), pp. 592-598 : 593

Pseudolanurgus Jordal, 2021

Type species: Micracis harunganae Schedl, 1961: 140

Diagnosis. Antennal scapus short, inflated, in females very slightly larger than in males and with a small tuft of dorsal setae; club with two procurved and slightly bisinuate sutures; funiculus 6-segmented. Interstrial setae mainly scale- or bristle-like, in uniseriate rows; elytral apex extended but not sharply mucronate, often lip-shaped; abdominal ventrite 5 truncated; setae on all ventrites unifid. Male genitalia with long apophyses and an exceedingly long and enlarged, curled flagellum; tegmen and spiculum gastrale absent.

Remarks. This genus can be distinguished from the closely related Pseudomicracis Eggers, 1920 by the less procurved and slightly to distinctly bisinuate sutures on the antennal club, and by the slightly extended, but not mucronate, apex of the elytra, with the terminal tergite truncated. It is further distinguished from Diplotrichus by the simple unifid setae on the ventrites, and from Lanurgus by the very different flagellate male genitalia and single uniseriate rows of interstrial setae on the elytra.