Haptomerus Faust, 1889

Borovec, Roman & Nakládal, Oto, 2019, Haptomerus maculosus, a new species of the tribe Myorhinini from Zambia (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Entiminae), Zootaxa 4563 (2), pp. 387-395 : 388

Haptomerus Faust, 1889

Haptomerus Faust 1889: 142 ; Marshall 1908: 23; Hustache 1921: 42; Marshall 1958a: 124; Marshall 1958b: 712; Hoffmann 1959: 164; Voss 1960: 13; Osella & Lodos 1979: 76; Alonso-Zarazaga 1983: 311; Oberprieler 1995: 166; Osella et al. 1998: 231; Alonso-Zarazaga & Lyal 1999: 163; Borovec 2013: 293.

Type species, by original designation: Myorhinus lepidus Brullé, 1832 .

Haptomerus is one of few genera of Myorhinini with species in the Mediterranean subregion as well as in the Afrotropical region ( Osella et al. 1998). Two species are known from southern Europe: H. lepidus (Brullé, 1832) from Greece and Italy ( Borovec 2013) and one yet undescribed species from Portugal (Borovec, unpublished data). Haptomerus is much more speciose in the Afrotropical region, encompassing eight species: H. aeneus Hustache, 1921 ( Kenya) , H. affinis Voss, 1960 ( South Africa: North West), H. angolanus Marshall, 1958 ( Angola) , H. brevitarsis Voss, 1962 ( Democratic Republic of Congo), H. confusus Marshall, 1958 ( Cameroon) , H. limis ( Gyllenhal, 1836) ( South Africa: Eastern Cape, KwaZulu-Natal, Free State), H. mashunus Marshall, 1908 ( Zimbabwe) and H. natalis Marshall, 1908 ( South Africa: KwaZulu-Natal).

Faust (1889) originally described the genus in the tribe Tanyrhynchini Schoenherr, 1826, but Oberprieler (1995) later transferred it to Myorhinini , specifically to the Myorhinus -group of genera, and it was also listed in this tribe by Alonso-Zarazaga & Lyal (1999) and Borovec (2013).