Namaquania, 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 : 105

NAMAQUANIA BOROVEC & MEREGALLI , GEN. NOV.

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Type species: Namaquania andreai Borovec & Meregalli , here designated.

Diagnostic description: Middle-sized Namaini 2.4–4.1 mm long; rostrum continuous with head, with U-shaped stria on epifrons; ventral border of rostrum in profile short, conspicuously shorter than rostral thickness; frons densely squamose; gena and subgena densely squamose; antennal sockets in dorsal view narrowly reniform, in profile not reaching eyes, enlarged posteriad, directed towards eyes; antennal scapes slender, at apex as wide as clubs; metaventral process 1.5 × wider than transverse diameter of metacoxa; tibiae long and slender; tarsi long and slender, onychium distinctly longer than segment 3; ventrites squamose; suture between ventrite 1 and 2 slightly sinuose; tegmen with weakly sclerotized short parameres; female sternite VIII with long and slender apodeme terminating at base of plate and forming short basal margins, its plate small, rhombus-shaped to oval.

Etymology:The genus name refers to the Namaqualand, an arid region of South Africa ( Northern Cape Province) and southern Namibia, originally inhabited

by Nama and Khoisan tribes, from where the majority of the species were collected. The gender is feminine.

Included taxa and distribution: In addition to the type species, seven additional taxa are included in Namaquania , based on the mt-Cox1 analysis and/or their morphology. They are distributed in South Africa: Northern Cape, northern part of Southern Cape and in southern Namibia ( Fig. 13) .

NAMAQUANIA ANDREAI BOROVEC & MEREGALLI , SP.