Phloeoditica Schedl

Jordal, Bjarte H., 2010, Revision of the genus Phloeoditica Schedl - with description of two new genera and two new species in Phloeosinini (Coleoptera, Curculionidae, Scolytinae), ZooKeys 56, pp. 141-156 : 142-143

Phloeoditica Schedl

Phloeoditica Schedl 1963: 260

Phloeoditica : Schedl 1962: 189 ( Alonso-Zarazaga and Lyal 2009: unavailable name)

Type species:

Kissophagus curtus Eggers

Diagnosis.

Typical phloeosinine having a 5-segmented funicle and flattened club with oblique sutures and broadly separated pro- and mesocoxae. Readily recognised by a unique pair of long denticles at the outer apical margin of protibiae, and an unusually long and laterally curved inner uncus.

Description.

Size range 1.7-2.5 mm. Frons convex to moderately flattened in both sexes; antennal funicle 5-segmented, large club with two oblique sutures, the first marked by a septum, the second suture only marked by setae. Pronotum smooth, densely punctured, with short bristle-like setae. Scutellum not visible from above. Elytra with interstrial ground vestiture consisting of hair-like or scale-like setae; mesal grove immediately behind scutellum without interlocking nodules and cavities. Metepisternum clothed by plumose scales; sclerolepidia present, small and hair-like. Postnotum fused to metanotum; scutoscutellar suture parallel to scutellar groove for less than one-third of its length, then gradually curved laterally. Pleural suture nearly straight. Procoxae and metacoxae broadly separated. Outer apical angle of protibiae with a pair of projecting long socketed denticles, mostly embedded in cuticle; inner mucro extended into a large uncus curved towards outer margin.

Comments:

The name Phloeoditica is feminine as documented by Alonso-Zarazaga and Lyal (2009).

Taxa included:

Phloeoditica curta (Eggers, 1925), Phloeoditica elegans Schedl (1963).

Taxa excluded:

Phloeoditica phloeosinoides Browne (1966) to Asiophilus , Phloeoditica setosa (Eggers, 1939) to Pseudoxylechinus , Pseudoxylechinus obscura Schedl, 1963, to Pseudodiamerus (by Wood 1988).