Acarapion Kissinger, 2005

Kissinger, David G., 2005, Review Of Apioninae Of Chile (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea: Apionidae), The Coleopterists Bulletin 59 (1), pp. 71-90 : 81

Genus Acarapion Kissinger , new genus

Type Species. Acarapion ferruginosum Kissinger , new species.

Generic Name. A combination from the Greek acares meaning short, small, tiny, or momentary and the generic name, Apion ; gender neuter.

Generic Characters. Body small; subcephalic ridge moderately high; vestiture sparse; pronotum without basal flange, with basal fovea; interval 9 with 1 specialized seta in apical 0.25; male tarsi 1–3 tarsomere 1 with small, blunt spine on inner margin; male pygidium of apionine type; length of apical lobes and postfenestral plate subequal, parameres with sides produced into vertical curtain surrounding median lobe, attachment of vertical curtain to basal piece broad, parameres fused with basal piece, membranous lobes of parameres without microtrichiae, apical lobes of parameres a single lobe, apical lobes without macrochaetae.5 microns, basal median area of parameres flat; endophallus with 4 rows of toothlike structures, without large hooklike structure.

Genus also includes Apion nigrosuturatum Béguin-Billecocq, 1909: 459 .