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Melanesicus Beaver & Petrov 2021, gen. n. ...
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Genus Melanesicus Beaver & Petrov, gen. n. Type species: Xyleborus partitus Browne 1974: 69. Diagnosis. The genus Melanesicus clearly belongs in the tribe Xyleborini (Wood 1986; Alonso-Zarazaga & Lyal 2009). It is distinguished morphologically from other genera in the tribe by the following combination of characters: 1) antennal funicle 4-segmented (excluding pedicel), club of type 3 (Hulcr et al. 2007; Smith et al. 2020); 2) pronotum subquadrate in form as viewed from above, as wide as or slightly wider than long, the anterior margin transverse, without asperities, emarginate in the middle when viewed from in front, lacking mycangial tufts at the base; 3) scutellum linguiform, flush with the surface of the elytra or almost so; 4) elytra divided into sharply separated smooth and shining (anterior), and matt (posterior) areas, the latter armed with numerous granules; 5) sclerolepidia absent from dorsal margin of metaventrite; 6) procoxae contiguous; 7) protibiae subtriangular, widest at apical third, ... : Published as part of Beaver, R. A., Petrov, A. V. & Sittichaya, W., 2021, A new genus of ambrosia beetle from Melanesia (Coleoptera: Curculionidae Scolytinae: Xyleborini), pp. 163-172 in Zootaxa 4949 (1) on pages 164-165, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4949.1.9, http://zenodo.org/record/4636084 ...
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Keyword:
Animalia; Arthropoda; Biodiversity; Coleoptera; Curculionidae; Insecta; Melanesicus; Taxonomy
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URL: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4663337 https://zenodo.org/record/4663337
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