Tasactes Faust, 1894

Lü, Heyu & Zhang, Runzhi, 2025, Four new species of the genus Tasactes Faust, 1894 (Coleoptera, Curculionidae, Dryophthorinae) from China, ZooKeys 1256, pp. 141-161 : 141-161

Genus Tasactes Faust, 1894

Type species.

Tasactes interruptus Faust, 1894 .

Diagnosis.

(modified from Morimoto 1978, 1985). Body small; integument black, antennae and tarsomeres reddish-brown; head, rostrum, pronotum, abdominal ventrites densely covered with punctures; eyes linear or oval laterally, distinctly separated ventrally; antennal funicle 6 - segmented, antennal club transversely truncated with conically projecting velvety apex; scutellum very small, usually subtriangular; elytra usually bearing pilose pustules, striae distinct; metepisternum entirely covered by elytra; legs usually covered with dense short pubescence; procoxae contiguous; femora unarmed; claws free; male genitalia usually without parameres, temones longer than pedon; lamina of female sternite 8 usually bifurcated; collum of spermatheca usually more developed than ramus.