Aphthonoides sp.Click here to see a larger image |
Aphthonoides Jacoby, 1885b:59 (type species A.beccarii Jacoby, 1885, Java, by monotypy). - Heikertinger 1924a:29. - Heikertinger & Csiki in Junk, 1939:102. - Maulik, 1929:208. - Chen, 1936b:626. - Gressitt & Kimoto, 1963:745, 796. - Kimoto, 1965:431. - Scherer, 1969:31. |
Statistics: 1 species in Palearctic region, 5 species worldwide.
Host Plants: Unknown.
Diagnosis Body very small oval and convex. Color black, dark brown or yellow.
Head pro-hypognathous, large, long, more or less flat from lateral view; frontal ridge convex, wide to narrow, forming highly elevated, angular T-shaped ridge with anterior margin of head capsule. Clypeus and labrum long. Antennal calli slightly raised, not delimited from vertex by furrow. Eye small. Antenna 11-segmented, moniliform to filiform.
Pronotum narrow with short and narrow lateral margin, without transverse or longitudinal impressions. Pronotal punctures sometimes elongate. Procoxal cavity open behind. Intercoxal prosternal process very narrow; mesosternum wide.
Elytra convex, oval; humeral calli well developed. Elytron covered with striae; interspaces convex. Epipleuron wide, vertical.
Femora typical. Metatibia very short, shorter than first metatarsal segment; with very long apical spur, almost as long as hind femur. First metatarsal segment as long as three following segments combined.
