Bezdekiellus, Colonnelli, 2014

Colonnelli, Enzo, 2014, Apionidae, Nanophyidae, Brachyceridae and Curculionidae except Scolytinae (Coleoptera) from Socotra Island, Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 54, pp. 295-422 : 324-325

Bezdekiellus gen. nov.

Type species. Bezdekiellus lucidulus sp. nov., by present designation.

Description. Body small, very elongate, bare, rather strongly punctured, cuticle of dorsal surface shining, that of ventral side somewhat alutaceous. Head convex, subconical. Eyes reduced to single ommatidium. Rostrum thick, slightly curved at apical third, moderately elongate, slightly dilated at antennal insertion and almost continuing outline of head in lateral view. Antennae moderately elongate and inserted at apical quarter, scape hardly sinuous and moderately widening towards apex, funicle pentamerous, antennomere I somewhat thicker and obviously longer than others which are short and from antennomeres III to VII transverse; club large, oval. Pronotum elongate, constricted towards apex, apical and basal margins truncate. Scutellum invisible. Elytra elongate, subparallel sided, shoulders absent. Striae formed by large deep punctures, intervals narrower than striae. Femora clubbed, edentate and slightly curved. Tibiae quite short and straight, apical uncus strong. Tarsi not very narrow, tarsomere III bilobed, claws free. Procoxae separated and closer to posterior than to anterior margin of prosternum, meso- and metacoxae separated by an interval clearly wider than their diameter. Abdominal ventrites I and II elongate, suture between them straight, ventrites III and IV short, their combined length about half of that of ventrite II, ventrite V rather elongate and crescent-shaped.

Differential diagnosis. Although surely very close to Hajekia gen. nov., besides the dorsal surface entirely shining instead of at least in part alutaceous, this new genus differs readily from it as well as from all other pentamerous Dryotribini by the eyes formed by a single ommatidium difficult to see in some specimens. On the other hand, the eyeless Madagascan monobasic Pentebathmus Richard, 1956 is completely different from Bezdekiellus gen. nov. by its shortly oval elytra, maximum width of pronotum at apical quarter and subcarinate elytral intervals ( RICHARD 1956).

Etymology. The genus takes its name from one of its skilled collectors, Jan Bezděk. Gender is masculine.