Myrmecobrenthus

Bartolozzi, Luca & Loudit, Sandrine Mariella Bayendi, 2011, Revision of the genus Myrmecobrenthus Kleine with a description of a new species from Gabon (Coleoptera: Brentidae: Eremoxenini), Zootaxa 3101, pp. 53-58 : 57

Key to the species of Myrmecobrenthus .

1. Male head in lateral view with a depression separating the mesorostral plate from the head ( Fig. 8)....... M. susinii n. sp.

-. Male head with mesorostral plate and head contiguous in lateral view, without any depression separating them ( Figs. 5, 7).. 2

2. Temples short. Male mandibles large, internally concave. Metarostral plate laterally rounded. Antennal article 2 shorter than 3. Elytral striae weak ( Fig. 3).......................................................... M. ater Damoiseau, 1961

-. Temples absent. Male mandibles short, not falcate. Antennomere 2 longer than 3. Metarostral plate laterally protruding. Elytral striae well evident, even if not very deep ( Figs 1–2)..................................... M. wasmanni Kleine, 1920