Cederbergia, 2021

Meregalli, Massimo, Borovec, Roman, Cervella, Piero, Santovito, Alfredo, Toševski, Ivo, Ottati, Sara & Nakládal, Oto, 2021, The Namaini, a new weevil tribe with six new genera from South Africa (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Entiminae), Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 193, pp. 95-123 : 117-118

CEDERBERGIA BOROVEC & MEREGALLI , GEN. NOV.

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Type species: Cederbergia indecora Borovec & Meregalli , here designated.

Diagnostic description: Small Namaini 1.8–2.6 mm; rostrum continuous with head with U-shaped stria on epifrons; frons squamose; gena glabrous and smooth, subgena densely squamose; antennal sockets in dorsal view hardly visible as narrow furrows, laterally with ventral margin directed to ventral margin of eyes and dorsal margin poorly noticeable, vanishing before eyes; procoxal cavities touching anterior margin of pronotum; apical surface of metatibiae squamose; abdominal ventrites densely squamose; suture between ventrites 1 and 2 conspicuously arched; tegmen lacking parameres; female sternite VIII with long and slender apodeme terminating inside of plate, plate wider than long.

Etymology: Cederbergia is derived from the Cederberg Mountains, rock formations located approximately 300 km north of Cape Town, where the majority of the taxa attributed to this genus were found. The gender is feminine.

Included taxa and distribution: In addition to the type species, 12 additional taxa are included in Cederbergia , based on the mt-Cox1 analysis and/or their morphology. They are distributed in South Africa: Western Cape ( Fig. 17) .

CEDERBERGIA INDECORA BOROVEC & MEREGALLI, SP.