Brachycerus sp. 1

Colonnelli, Enzo, 2014, Apionidae, Nanophyidae, Brachyceridae and Curculionidae except Scolytinae (Coleoptera) from Socotra Island, Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 54, pp. 295-422 : 304

Brachycerus sp. 1

Material examined (1 spec.). YEMEN: SOCOTRA ISLAND: Hamadero 20.–21.xi.2000, 1 J, V. Bejček & K. Šťastný leg. ( NMPC).

Note. Surely a new species of small size (6.3 mm), the base of the rostrum of which is surmounted by two strongly projecting tubercles, and the second urosternite is almost as long as the fourth. It belongs to the ‘Merkmalgruppe C’ of HAAF (1957a,b), comprising primarily southern African species which are all much larger, their size being not less than 8.5 mm ( HAAF 1957a,b). Genus recorded from Socotra for the first time.