Furcaeolesthes, Vitali, 2022

Furcaeolesthes View in CoL n. gen.

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= Parolesthes partim.

Type-species: Parolesthes vietnamita Jacquot, 2020 ( Fig. 2)

Diagnosis. – Body convex, flattened, fairly stout. – Head with an interantennal ridge posteriorly bifurcate and delimiting a triangular interocular space. – Scape slightly convex externally, wrinkled dorsally in males, smooth in females. – Antennae ectoapically toothed and endoapically mutic in both sexes. – Prothorax mutic or with a minuscule tubercle at sides, with two longitudinal furrows on the disc delimiting a squared area. – Prosternal intercoxal process not tuberculate. – Procoxae rounded. – Elytra tapered posteriorly in males, parallel-sided in females, sometimes toothed at apex. – Elytral pubescence giving changing pattern. – Femoral apex mutic.

Furcaeolesthes vietnamita ( Jacquot, 2020) n. comb. Furcaeolesthes magdalenae ( Jacquot, 2020) n. comb. Furcaeolesthes macroculis ( Jacquot, 2020) n. comb.