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Issue: Vol. 43 No. 1: 31 Oct. 2023
Type: Article
Published: 2023-10-31
DOI: 10.12976/jib/2023.43.1.1
Page range: 1-7
Abstract views: 177
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An exceptional new weevil genus and species (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) from Tanzania

Biodiversity Application & Research Center, Atatürk University, Erzurum, Turkey
Department of Life Sciences, the Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London
Lixini new taxa Tanzania Afrotropical

Abstract

The new genus Borisius gen. nov. and the new species, Borisius korotyaevi sp. nov. are described and illustrated in the tribe Lixini from Tanzania in the Afrotropical region. The new genus can easily be recognized by the following combination of characters: antennal club greatly elongate and spindle-shaped, forehead with two prominent ridges triangularly diverging anteriad, pronotum constricted with two lateral projections, third elytral interstria strongly raised in basal fifth, humeri swollen, femora dentate.

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