Enochlisi, Santos-Silva, 2022

Enochlisi View in CoL gen. nov.

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Type species: Enochlisi micri View in CoL sp. nov., here designated.

Etymology. – Greek, ενόχληση (annoyance, bother, trouble); alluding to the problems and annoyances encountered while completing this work. Feminine gender.

Description. – Small size. Body convex, subelongate, without long and erect setae. Head retractile. Frons subflattened. Antennal tubercles slightly elevated, distinctly separated from each other. Eyes divided, with irregular, imperfectly formed row of ommatidia close to upper and lower eye lobes. Antennae not reaching elytral apex in both sexes; scape slightly shorter than antennomere III, subpiriform, without apical cicatrix; antennomere III longer than IV; antennomere IV longer than V. Prothorax with small, subtriangular tubercle laterally about middle. Apex of prosternal process widely expanded apically, emarginate centrally. Mesocoxal cavities closed laterally. Metathorax distinctly shorter than abdominal ventrite 1. Humeri without spiniform projection; elytra without centrobasal crest, fused along suture, with rounded apex. Femora pedunculate-clavate. Abdominal ventrite 5 distinctly longer than ventrite 4 in both sexes; intercoxal process wide, with rounded apex.

Remarks. – Enochlisi gen. nov. is similar to Potiatuca Galileo & Martins, 2006 , by the reduced metathorax, and the abdominal intercoxal process very wide and rounded apically, a feature omitted in the original description of Potiatuca (Fig. 19), but differs as follows: eye lobes divided (not divided in Potiatuca ); body without long and erect setae (present and somewhat abundant in Potiatuca ). Enochlisi differs from Adetaptera Santos-Silva, Nascimento & Wappes, 2019 especially by the abdominal intercoxal process being wide and with rounded apex (narrow and triangular-shaped in Adetaptera ). As the shape of the intercoxal process was not mentioned in the original description of Potiatuca carioca Monné & Monné, 2009 , and P. serrana Monné & Monné, 2009 , it is not possible to know if they really belong to Potiatuca . Even so, these two species differ from the type species of Enochlisi by the presence of somewhat abundant erect setae and eyes being not divided.