Marvaldiella Alonso-Zarazaga & Lyal, 1999

Colonnelli, Enzo, 2014, Apionidae, Nanophyidae, Brachyceridae and Curculionidae except Scolytinae (Coleoptera) from Socotra Island, Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 54, pp. 295-422 : 309

Marvaldiella Alonso-Zarazaga & Lyal, 1999

Comments on classification. Taxonomy of Cossoninae is in a state of flux at the moment. Despite the several papers by VOSS (1934a,b, 1939, 1951, 1953, 1955b, 1956, 1957, 1971b) and MARSHALL (1905, 1937, 1956) particular for the African and Oriental fauna, and subsequent to the very outdated worldwide revision of the subfamily by WOLLASTON (1873), the morphological characters upon which several genera and even tribes proposed and listed by ALONSO- ZARAZAGA & LYAL (1999, 2002) are based remain ambiguous. One can agree in principle with ALONSO- ZARAZAGA (1989) about the rejection of ‘genera of convenience’ in the meaning of BALFOUR- BROWNE (1944), but the ‘confused and inadequate taxonomy of Cossoninae’ ( ZIMMERMAN 1956) suggests to use the already described genera in a broad sense. In consequence, the following new species are positively assigned to Marvaldiella Alonso- Zarazaga & Lyal, 1999, both the Socotran taxa differing essentially from the description of the genus by FÅHRAEUS (1871) (under the name Mimus Fåhraeus, 1871 , a junior homonym replaced by Marvaldiella ) only by the not very elongate funicular antennomere II, and narrow instead of dilated tarsomere III.