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

Figures

FIGURES 5 – 9. 5 — Myrmecobrenthus wasmanni, male head and rostrum, lateral view; 6 — Myrmecobrenthus wasmanni, female head and rostrum, lateral view; 7 — Myrmecobrenthus ater, holotype, male head and rostrum, lateral view; 8 — Myrmecobrenthus susinii n. sp. male head and rostrum, lateral view; 9 — Myrmecobrenthus wasmanni, female head and rostrum, dorsal view (scale bar 2 mm).

FIGURES 1 – 4. 1 — Myrmecobrenthus wasmanni, male from Gabon, dorsal view (total length 9.7 mm); 2 — Myrmecobrenthus wasmanni, female from Gabon, dorsal view (total length 10.9 mm); 3 — Myrmecobrenthus ater, male from Ivory Coast, dorsal view (total length 10.0 mm) (photo by Stéphane Hanot, MRAC); 4 — Myrmecobrenthus susinii n. sp. male holotype, dorsal view (total length 6.8 mm).