Larinus berti sp. n. (Coleoptera, Curculionidae, Lixinae) from North Africa.

ABSTRACT: A new species, Larinus berti sp. n. is described from Morocco and assigned to subgenus Cryphopus Petri, 1907 (Curculionidae: Lixinae; Lixini). Diagnostic characters of the new species are large size, elongate-ovate body, bisulcate sub-quadrangular rostrum, triangularly raised dorsum of rostrum, flat subgena and submentum, Y-shaped apodeme of sternite VIII of female and thin nodulus of spermatheca.

SUBMITTER: Gultekin L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3817427 | biostudies-literature | 2013

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature