Hecyrapion Kissinger, 2005

Kissinger, David G., 2005, Review Of Apioninae Of Chile (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea: Apionidae), The Coleopterists Bulletin 59 (1), pp. 71-90 : 75

Genus Hecyrapion Kissinger , new genus

Type Species. Hecyrapion novercale Kissinger , new species.

Generic Name. A combination from the Greek hekyra for mother-in-law and the generic name, Apion ; gender neuter.

Generic Characters. Rostrum with marked sexual dimorphism, male in lateral view with rostrum almost straight, with ventral margin of rostrum more or less produced into a keel, cross section of rostrum would resemble a piece of pie with acute end ventral, ventral submedial sulcus broadly, shallowly present; female rostrum without ventral submedial sulcus and ventral expansion; vestiture of prothorax and elytra sparse, well-separated narrowly rounded scales; subcephalic ridge medium to high; pronotum with basal flange and basal fovea; 1 specialized seta on apex of interval 9; radial window present; male legs unmodified; male pygidium of apionine type; length of apical lobes and postfenestral plate subequal, parameres with sides produced into vertical curtain surrounding median lobe, attachment of vertical curtain to basal piece broad, parameres fused to basal piece, membranous lobes of parameres without microtrichiae, apical lobes of parameres a single lobe, apical lobes without macrochaetae.5 microns, basal median area of parameres flat; and endophallus with 2 rows of toothlike structures, without large hooklike structure.

Genus also includes Apion anisorhynchum Gerstaecker, 1854: 239 .