Peritelini, Lacordaire, 1863

Colonnelli, Enzo, 2014, Apionidae, Nanophyidae, Brachyceridae and Curculionidae except Scolytinae (Coleoptera) from Socotra Island, Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 54, pp. 295-422 : 341

Tribe Peritelini

Taxonomy. Our present knowledge of African entimines is very poor, and almost all the species occurring south of the Sahara are only quite distantly related with the Palaearctic ones. In addition, a good many of Entiminae tribes are still inadequately defined, and several genera are in most cases attributed to one or another tribe just by the absence or the presence of a particular feature, regardless of their true affinities. A revision of the relationships of all those entimines is far beyond the purpose of this paper, therefore are here simply described the new taxa discovered in Socotra in accordance with the tribal arrangement proposed by ALONSO- ZARAZAGA & LYAL (1999), for which the Socotran entimines with scrobes dorsally entirely visible or almost so, trisetose mandibles, fused claws and lacking pronotal vibrissae are to be included in Peritelini in the broad sense as presently understood. A first comprehensive attempt toward a better arrangement of the tropical African Peritelini sensu lato was published by HUSTACHE (1939), and a few years later the genera close to Systates Gerstaecker, 1871 were revised and keyed by MARSHALL (1944). Subsequent contributions were those by the same MARSHALL (1955), and by VOSS (1956, 1962a,b, 1971b), who described some new genera and subgenera most of which poorly characterized and often only based on morphological characters shared by sometimes not so closely related species. For this reason subgenera of large unrevised genera are not used here, as explained in the introduction.