Afromicracis, Schedl, 1959

Jordal, Bjarte H., 2021, A phylogenetic and taxonomic assessment of Afrotropical Micracidini (Coleoptera, Scolytinae) reveals a strong diversifying role for Madagascar, Organisms Diversity & Evolution 21 (1), pp. 245-278 : 262

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https://doi.org/ 10.1007/s13127-021-00481-4

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scientific name

Afromicracis
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The Afromicracis View in CoL clade

This group consist of two genera defined by a long, narrow scapus with scant setae in both sexes, and a 5-segmented funiculus. The precosta on the hind wing has only a single seta, the inner mucro of the metatibiae is long and thin, and in males the tegmen is minute and Y-shaped, and a very long, thin and often coiled flagellum runs through the aedeagus.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Curculionidae

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