Decellebruchus Borowiec

Napoles, Jesus Romero, 2016, Systematics of the seed beetle genus Decellebruchus Borowiec, 1987 (Coleoptera, Bruchidae), ZooKeys 579, pp. 59-81 : 62

Taxon classification Animalia Coleoptera Bruchidae

Decellebruchus Borowiec

Decellebruchus Borowiec, 1987: 149.

Description.

Male. Vestiture: Moderately dense or dense, variegated; front coxa with a wide tuft of white setae. Body oval and stout. Head: Short, strongly constricted behind eyes, postocular lobe very short; eyes bulging, deeply emarginate; frons narrow, with sharp median carina; antennae pectinate from 4th or 5th segment. Prothorax: Pronotum subconical, without lateral carina; disc convex, slightly gibbous before scutellum and with shallow median channel; prosternal process narrow, triangular, acute. Meso- and metathorax: Scutellum square, bidentate apically; elytral striae regular; striae 4 and 5 abbreviated basally by tubercle. Legs: Metacoxa densely punctate; hind femur moderately swollen, ventral carinae obsolete. Internal ventral margin with small subapical spine, often followed by two smaller spines; hind tibia straight, enlarged, with complete or incomplete set of carinae, mucro longer than lateral coronal denticle. Abdomen: More or less telescoped, fifth sternite deeply emarginated; pygidium vertical. Genitalia: Internal sac of male genitalia lined with fine spines with or without sclerites; ventral valve deeply arcuate. Female. Similar to male, except antenna not pectinate, eyes less bulging, pygidium subvertical, last abdominal sternite not emarginated.