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Issue: Vol. 2927 No. 1: 22 Jun. 2011
Type: Articles
Published: 2011-06-22
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2927.1.3
Page range: 49–56
Abstract views: 34
PDF downloaded: 6

Description and taxonomic position of a new genus and species of southern African pollen beetle (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae: Meligethinae)

Dipartimento di Biologia e Biotecnologie “Charles Darwin”, Sapienza Università di Roma, Via Borelli 50, I – 00161 Rome, Italy
Department of Entomology, National Museum, Kunratice 1, CZ – 14800 Praha, Czech Republic
Plant Pest Diagnostics Center, California Department of Food & Agriculture, 3294 Meadowview Road, Sacramento, CA 95832–1448, USA
Dipartimento di Scienze di Sanità Pubblica e Malattie Infettive, Sapienza Università di Roma, Piazzale Aldo Moro 5, I – 00185, Rome, Italy
Dipartimento di Biologia e Biotecnologie “Charles Darwin”, Sapienza Università di Roma, Via Borelli 50, I – 00161 Rome, Italy
Dipartimento di Biologia e Biotecnologie “Charles Darwin”, Sapienza Università di Roma, Via Borelli 50, I – 00161 Rome, Italy
Dipartimento di Biologia e Biotecnologie “Charles Darwin”, Sapienza Università di Roma, Via Borelli 50, I – 00161 Rome, Italy
Coleoptera Restiopria biondii gen. nov. sp. nov. South Africa host-plants Restionaceae

Abstract

The pollen beetle Restiopria biondii gen. nov., sp. nov., from Western Cape, South Africa, is described. The taxonomic position of Restiopria is discussed. The new genus is not noticeably related to any other known Meligethine, although it exhibits a few shared characters with Pria Stephens 1830. Larval host plants of the single known species are male flowers of two species of the monocot family Restionaceae.

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