Springbokia, 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 : 108-110

SPRINGBOKIA BOROVEC & MEREGALLI , GEN. NOV.

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Type species: Springbokia sacculus Borovec & Meregalli , here designated.

Diagnostic description: Very small Namaini , 1.4– 2.1 mm long; rostrum short and wide with epifrons distinctly tapering anteriad; frons squamose; gena glabrous and smooth, subgena in narrow middle part glabrous, laterally densely squamose, squamose parts subtriangular; antennal sockets in dorsal view narrowly reniform, in profile subtriangular, reaching eyes, with ventral margin touching ventral margin of eyes and dorsal margin directed above eyes; antennal funicles 6-segmented; procoxal cavities placed closer to anterior margin of pronotum; apical surface of metatibiae glabrous; ventrites squamose; suture between ventrites 1 and 2 arched; tegmen without parameres; female sternite VIII with long and slender apodeme terminating inside of plate, plate distinctly wider than long.

Etymology: The name of the genus is derived from the town of Springbok, the largest town in the Namaqualand area in the Northern Cape Province, in the surroundings of which the first specimens of this genus were collected in the course of the first expedition to South Africa. The gender is feminine.

Included taxa and distribution: In addition to the type species, nine aditional taxa are included in Springbokia , based on the mt-Cox1 analysis and/or their morphology. They are distributed in South Africa: Northern Cape Province ( Fig. 16) .