identifier	taxonID	type	CVterm	format	language	title	description	additionalInformationURL	UsageTerms	rights	Owner	contributor	creator	bibliographicCitation
3A338797FF8FFF97FF09E998FB2108CD.text	3A338797FF8FFF97FF09E998FB2108CD.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Tapinomorphus angolanus Borovec & Nakladal 2020	<div><p>Tapinomorphus angolanus Borovec &amp; Nakládal, sp. nov.</p><p>http://zoobank.org/ urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: 7E018BCE-10B0-493C-8419-9E4712C0C140</p><p>(Figs 1, 5–8)</p><p>Type locality. Angola, Bruco .</p><p>Type material. Holotype. ♂, ‘ Angola [Namibe], Bruco, 26.ii-2.iii.1972, damp leaf litter by stream’ (BMNH).</p><p>Description. Body length of holotype 2.51 mm. Body brown, basal half of scapes, funicles, apical third of tibiae and tarsi paler, yellowish brown (Fig. 1). Dorsal part of body and femora and tibiae densely covered by oval appressed scales, finely longitudinally striate, leaving narrow spaces with visible integument, 3 scales across the width of one interval. Elytra with one row of conspicuous, subspatulate erect setae, before the rounded tip weakly wider than diameter of one appressed scale, distance between setae separated by 2–3 times length of one seta; pronotum with very short and wide, densely irregularly scattered setae; head with rostrum with longer and slender, sparsely scattered setae; femora and tibiae with short, slender, semiappressed setae; scapes at inner side with long and sparse, erect setae; funicles with fine, semierect, piliform whitish setae; clubs and tibiae with short setae.</p><p>Rostrum (Figs 5, 6) slender and moderately long, widest at base, at base 1.12 × as wide as long and 1.17 × as at apex, basal part tapered apicad, then about parallel-sided; laterally distinctly convex, well separated from the head by transverse sulcus and curved down to frons at antennal insertion. Epifrons widest at base, here equally wide as space between inner edge of eyes, distinctly tapered anteriad with concave sides, dorsally flat, posteriorly separated from head by straight transverse sulcus. Frons short and wide, glabrous, posteriorly separated from epifrons by straight but not carinated line. Epistome not developed. Scrobe dorsally visible as very slender furrow along the entire length, weakly curved; laterally weakly enlarged posteriad, curved, with dorsal border directed to ventral border of eye but not reaching it and ventral border directed downward, not reaching lower part of rostrum. Eyes small, convex, weakly prominent from outline of head; laterally very near to dorsal part of head. Head long, behind eyes equally long as diameter of eyes; vertex slightly convex.</p><p>Antennae very slender; scape 1.4 × as long as funicle, at apex distinctly more slender than club, very slender in basal two thirds, in apical third evenly weakly enlarged apicad, at apex narrower than club, weakly curved at midlength and at apical third; funicle 5-segmented. Segments 1 and 2 long and slender (1 is enlarged at tip), equally long; segment 1 twice as long as wide and equally long as segment 2, which is 2.7 × as long as wide; segments 3–5 isodiametric, segment 5 slightly larger than previous two; club 1.8 × as long as wide.</p><p>Pronotum (Fig. 1) 1.48 × as wide as long, small in relation to elytra, 0.52 × as wide as elytra, narrow, widest in basal third with rounded sides, distinctly more tapered anteriorly then posteriorly, behind anterior border weakly constricted; disc regularly convex; base weakly arched.</p><p>Elytra short oval (Fig. 1), 1.09 × as long as wide, widest at midlength with distinctly regularly rounded sides, at apex broadly rounded. Striae under vestiture distinctly roughly punctate, about as wide as intervals; interstriae without tubercles or elevations. Subhumeral bumps weakly developed, visible only in dorso-lateral view.</p><p>Abdominal ventrites short and wide (Fig. 7), 1.24 × as wide as long, glabrous, ventrite 1 punctured, the others smooth; ventrite 1 at middle more than twice as long as ventrite 2; ventrite 2 at middle about equal in length to ventrites 3 and 4 combined. Suture between ventrites 1 and 2 straight. Metaventral process obtuse, distinctly wider than transverse diameter of metacoxa.</p><p>Femora unarmed. Protibiae with outer edge straight and inner edge distinctly enlarged, apex subtruncate with fringe of short, sparse setae. Metatibiae at inner edge with one distinct, brownish, blunt spine at midlength, distinctly enlarged on inner edge at apex. Tarsal segment 2 1.2 × as wide as long; segment 3 1.3 × as wide as long and 1.3 × as wide as segment 2; onychium slender and long, 1.6 × as long as segment 3. Claws fused in basal half.</p><p>Penis (Fig. 8) ventrally parallel-sided, at apical quarter evenly tapered apicad, subtriangular; laterally widest in basal third, curved, evenly tapered apicad.</p><p>Derivation of name. Named after the country of Angola.</p><p>Biology. The holotype was collected from damp leaf litter.</p><p>Differential diagnosis. Tapinomorphus angolanus sp. nov. is easily distinguished from almost all other Tapinomorphus species by antennal funicle 5-segmented, while all other species have funicle 7-segmented. The only exception is T. divergens Voss, 1962 described from Tanzania, which also has funicle 5-segmented but that character was overlooked by Voss in his original description, based on poorly mounted type specimens, and also T. kudrnai Borovec &amp; Nakládal, sp. nov. described below. A key to the three species with 5-segmented funicle is presented below.</p><p>Except for its 5-segmented funicle, T. angolanus Borovec &amp; Nakládal, sp. nov. is characterized by pronotum very small in comparison to elytra, moderately slender rostrum and elytra with rows of long subspatulate setae. T. kidundaensis Voss, 1962 also has pronotum very small in comparison to elytra, but T. angolanus Borovec &amp; Nakládal, sp. nov. can be distinguished from that species, described from Tanzania, by absence of humps on elytra (vs. elytra with small longitudinal humps on intervals 3, 5 and 7 in T. kidundaensis), rostrum slender and long, 1.1 × as wide as long (vs. 1.5 × in T. kidundaensis) and erect elytral subspatulate setae distinctly enlarged apically (vs. slender, parallel-sided, not enlarged apically in T. kidundaensis). Elytra without humps and elevated intervals, not conspicuously prominent eyes and elytra with conspicuous rows of long subspatulate setae make T. angolanus sp. nov. similar to T. setipennis Voss, 1962 described from Tanzania. From T. setipennis it is easily distinguishable by rostrum without laterally prominent pterygiae (vs. pterygiae well developed, distinctly prominent laterally in T. setipennis), pronotum small in comparison to elytra, 0.5 × as wide as elytra (vs. 0.6 × in T. setipennis) and first two funicle segments equally long (vs. first segment distinctly longer than second in T. setipennis).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/3A338797FF8FFF97FF09E998FB2108CD	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Borovec, Roman;Nakládal, Oto	Borovec, Roman, Nakládal, Oto (2020): Four new Tapinomorphus Hartmann species from Angola, Zambia and Zimbabwe (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Entiminae: Sciaphilini). Zootaxa 4838 (1): 128-136, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4838.1.7
3A338797FF8DFF90FF09E8E7FAE10E11.text	3A338797FF8DFF90FF09E8E7FAE10E11.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Tapinomorphus kudrnai Borovec & Nakladal 2020	<div><p>Tapinomorphus kudrnai Borovec &amp; Nakládal, sp. nov.</p><p>http://zoobank.org/ urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: B1905A3B-EEF7-4B24-BCCC-1FFC7BF9160D</p><p>(Figs 2, 9–12)</p><p>Type locality. Zambia, Chipoma Falls, 25 km SW Chinsali.</p><p>Type material. Holotype: ♂, ‘ Zambia, Northern pr., Chipoma falls, 25 km SW Chinsali, 5.- 6.12.2002, A. Kudrna Jr. lgt.’ (TMSA).</p><p>Description. Body length of holotype 2.05 mm. Body brown, scapes, funicles, tibiae and tarsi somewhat paler, yellowish brown. Elytra with rounded, longitudinally finely striolate appressed scales, 4 scales across width of one interval (Fig. 2). Pronotum, head with rostrum, femora with tibiae with more slender, long oval appressed scales, almost concealing integument. Elytra with one regular row of semiappressed, inconspicuous, wide, almost rounded scales, longitudinally finely striolate, about as long as half the width of one interval, distinctly wider than diameter of one appressed scale, distance between setae separated by three times length of one seta. Pronotum, head with rostrum, femora and tibiae with short, slender, semiappressed, hardly visible setae. Scapes at inner side with group of erect, moderately long, slender, subspatulate setae; funicles with short, semierect, piliform setae. Vestiture brownish; elytra with irregularly scattered small spots from greyish scales, pronotum with greyish scales in lateral parts, head and rostrum with dominant greyish scales.</p><p>Rostrum (Figs 9, 10) at short basal part enlarged apicad, then evenly distinctly tapered apicad with straight sides, 1.18 × as wide as long, at base 1.13 × as wide as at apex; laterally distinctly convex, weakly curved down before antennal insertion, conspicuously separated from head by transverse sulcus. Epifrons widest at base, distinctly evenly tapered apicad with straight sides, flat, with shallow longitudinal median furrow, separated from head by distinct shallow transverse sulcus. Frons long, posteriorly reaching antennal insertion, matt, flat. Epistome not developed. Scrobe dorsally visible as very narrow furrow, slightly constricted at the middle; laterally furrow-shaped, well edged, weakly curved, directed below eyes and not touching them. Eyes moderately large, prominent from outline of head, laterally placed above at middle of head. Head short and wide; vertex with shallow longitudinal median furrow.</p><p>Antennae slender; scape 1.4 × as long as funicle, curved at midlength, in basal half very slender, in apical half evenly enlarged apicad, at apex weakly narrower than club. Funicle 5-segmented; segment 1 1.9 × as long as wide and 1.7 × as long as segment 2, which is 1.7 × as long as wide; segment 3 isodiametric; segment 4 1.2 × as wide as long; segment 5 1.4 × as wide as long; club 1.7 × as long as wide.</p><p>Pronotum (Fig. 2) short and wide, 1.61 × as wide as long, 0.63 × as wide as elytra, widest at basal quarter with distinctly rounded sides, more tapered anteriorly than posteriorly; base V-shaped; disc distinctly regularly convex with coarse punctures.</p><p>Elytra short oval (Fig. 2), 1.15 × as long as wide, with distinctly rounded sides and broadly rounded at apex. Striae punctate, narrower than intervals; interstriae without bumps or elevations. Subhumeral bumps weakly developed, visible only in dorso-lateral view.</p><p>Abdominal ventrites short and wide, 1.12 × as wide as long, glabrous, shiny, ventrite 1 indistinctly punctured, the others smooth; ventrite 1 at middle about three times as long as ventrite 2; ventrite 2 at middle only slightly longer than ventrite 3 or 4. Suture between ventrites 1 and 2 sinuose. Metaventral process distinctly wider than transverse diameter of metacoxa.</p><p>Femora unarmed. Protibiae with outer edge straight and inner edge distinctly enlarged, apex rounded with fringe of very fine yellowish setae. Metatibiae with inner edge without spines or teeth, weakly enlarged at apex. Tarsal segment 2 1.7 × as wide as long; segment 3 1.4 × as wide as long and 1.4 × as wide as segment 2; onychium long and slender, 1.7 × as long as segment 3; claws fused in basal third, then weakly divorced.</p><p>Female genitalia. Spermatheca (Fig. 12) with very slender and small cornu, irregularly curved; corpus rounded; ramus isodiametric, subquadratic; collum tapered apicad, weakly curved at apex. Sternite VIII (Fig. 11) with plate narrow, arrow-shaped, with long tip exceeding anterior margin and long sclerites almost reaching base of plates; apodeme terminated at basal third. Gonocoxites flat, tapered apicad, with long apical styli with tuft of setae.</p><p>Etymology. The new species is dedicated to its collector, Arnošt Kudrna (Faculty of Science University of South Bohemia, České Budějovice), specialist of Cicindelidae .</p><p>Biology. Unknown.</p><p>Differential diagnosis. Tapinomorphus kudrnai Borovec &amp; Nakládal, sp. nov. is easily distinguishable from all other Tapinomorphus species by 5-segmented funicles, a character state shared only with T. angolanus Borovec &amp; Nakládal, sp. nov. and T. divergens Voss. It can be distinguished from T. angolanus Borovec &amp; Nakládal, sp. nov. by many characters, for example by short and wide rostrum, 1.18 × as wide as long (vs. 1.12 × in T. angolanus Borovec &amp; Nakládal, sp. nov.), short and wide pronotum, 1.61 × as wide as long (vs. 1.48 × in T. angolanus Borovec &amp; Nakládal, sp. nov.), segment 1 of funicle distinctly longer than segment 2 (vs. equally long in T. angolanus Borovec &amp; Nakládal, sp. nov.), short, rounded semiappressed setae on elytra (vs. long, slender, subspatulate setae in T. angolanus Borovec &amp; Nakládal, sp. nov.) and others. In the similar shape of rostrum T. kudrnai Borovec &amp; Nakládal, sp. nov. somewhat resembles T. latipennis Borovec &amp; Nakládal, sp. nov., from which it can be distinguished (except for its funicle segment number) by elytra short oval, 1.15 × as long as wide (vs. elytra rounded, flat, about as long as wide in T. latipennis Borovec &amp; Nakládal, sp. nov.) and sternite VIII in females with plate pointed with two longitudinal sclerites (vs. plate not pointed and without sclerites in T. latipennis Borovec &amp; Nakládal, sp. nov.).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/3A338797FF8DFF90FF09E8E7FAE10E11	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Borovec, Roman;Nakládal, Oto	Borovec, Roman, Nakládal, Oto (2020): Four new Tapinomorphus Hartmann species from Angola, Zambia and Zimbabwe (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Entiminae: Sciaphilini). Zootaxa 4838 (1): 128-136, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4838.1.7
3A338797FF8AFF91FF09EEDBFE470C41.text	3A338797FF8AFF91FF09EEDBFE470C41.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Tapinomorphus latipennis Borovec & Nakladal 2020	<div><p>Tapinomorphus latipennis Borovec &amp; Nakládal, sp. nov.</p><p>http://zoobank.org/ urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: 3D888157-9681-4DFD-9342-2554E1458B65</p><p>(Figs 3, 13–18)</p><p>Type locality. Zimbabwe, Manicaland, Vumba Mt. Bunga forest .</p><p>Type material. Holotype: ♂, ‘ Zimbabwe; Manicaland, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=32.47&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-19.07" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 32.47/lat -19.07)">Vumba Mt. Bunga forest</a>, 19.07 S – 32.47 E, 29.11.2006; E-Y: 3739, sifting and under bark, leg. Gussmann; Müller’ (TMSA) . Paratypes: 3 ♂♂ 5 ♀♀, the same data as holotype (TMSA); 5 ♂♂, ‘I. R.S.A. C.-MUS. R.A. C., S. Rhodesia [Zimbabwe]: Chipinga, 1200 à 1300 m. VII.1960, N. Leleup [lgt.], Humus dans résidu forêt ombrophile’ (RMCA) .</p><p>Description. Body length 2.27–2.63 mm, holotype 2.34 mm. Body brownish to dark brownish, antennae, short apical part of tibiae and tarsi paler, reddish brown to yellowish brown (Fig. 3). Elytra irregularly densely covered by short oval appressed scales, 4–5 scales across width of one interval, scales not completely covering integument, creating very slender transverse stripe from denser scales at middle and also at anterior and posterior third. Each interval with one inconspicuous regular row of semiappressed oval setae only weakly bigger than appressed ones, hardly visible in lateral view, distance between setae separated by about three times length of one seta.</p><p>Rostrum (Figs 13, 14) 1.28–1.33 × as wide as long, widest at base and regularly tapered anteriad with almost straight sides, at base 1.16–1.24 × as wide as at apex; laterally weakly convex, somewhat curved down before antennal insertion, well separated from head by transverse sulcus. Epifrons very wide and moderately short, flat, as wide at base as space between inner edge of eyes, regularly tapered apicad with slightly concave sides, posteriorly separated from head by straight, slender, well edged sulcus. Frons glabrous, short and wide, longitudinally weakly depressed, posteriorly clearly separated from epifrons by straight line, without carina. Epistome not developed. Scrobe dorsally visible along the entire length as very slender furrow, slightly curved; laterally furrow-shaped, glabrous, slightly curved and directed below eye, not touching it, not reaching lower part of rostrum. Eyes small, convex, somewhat protruding from outline of head; laterally subcircular, very near to dorsal border of head. Vertex wide, weakly convex.</p><p>Antennae slender, scape 1.3 × as long as funicle, at apex weakly narrower than club, slightly exceeding anterior border of pronotum, very slender in basal half, at midlength weakly curved, in apical half evenly enlarged apicad, at apex narrower than club. Funicle 7-segmented, segment 1 1.8–2.1 × as long as wide and 1.7–2.0 × as long as segment 2, which is 1.6–1.7 × as long as wide; segments 3–5 isodiametric to 1.1 × as wide as long; segment 6 1.1 × as wide as long; segment 7 1.2 × as wide as long; club 1.9 × as long as wide.</p><p>Pronotum (Fig. 3) very wide and short, 1.76–1.93 × as wide as long, 0.50–0.54 × as wide as elytra, widest behind midlength, with distinctly rounded sides, anteriorly conspicuously more tapered than posteriorly. Disc regularly convex, under scales vestiture shiny, smooth, coarsely punctate; punctures only slightly smaller than those on elytral disc, space between them very narrow, much less than diameter of the punctures. Base V-shaped.</p><p>Elytra (Fig. 3) rounded, flat, as wide as long, lens-shaped, 1.04 × as long as wide to 1.06 × as wide as long. Disc, inner seven intervals regularly weakly convex, without any hump or elevated interval, intervals 7 and 8 create longitudinal blunt but distinct edge, outer interstriae thus placed ventrally. Striae coarsely punctate with punctures large, subsquare and very dense; intervals very slender, narrower than half diameter of puncture. Interval 8 with small subhumeral bump, visible in dorso-lateral view. Base V-shaped.</p><p>Femora unarmed. Protibiae at their short apex slightly curved inside, apex rounded with fringe of moderately long but fine yellowish setae. Metatibiae in males with conspicuous brownish pointed spine between midlength and apical third, curved apically and with two very small dark brownish teeth between spine and base; females with spine much smaller, only somewhat bigger than teeth. Tarsi with segment 2 1.6–1.7 × as wide as long; segment 3 1.3–1.4 × as wide as long and 1.5–1.6 × as wide as segment 2; onychium 1.2–1.3 × as long as segment 3. Claws fused in basal half.</p><p>Abdominal ventrites short and wide, glabrous, 1.18–1.24× as wide as long, ventrite 1 behind metacoxa equal in length to ventrite 2, metaventral process obtuse, distinctly wider than transverse diameter of metacoxa.</p><p>Penis (Fig. 15) ventrally widest at midlength with weakly but regularly rounded sides, triangular with two small teeth at base; laterally regularly curved and equally wide, tip lengthened.</p><p>Sternite VIII in females (Fig. 17) with plate umbrella-shaped, but weakly subtriangular, with well-developed anterior margin and posterior margin membranous; apodeme about five times as long as plate, terminated just inside of plate, near the apex. Gonocoxites (Fig. 18) with hemisternites evenly tapered apicad, subtriangular, with long and slender apical styli with tuft of setae. Spermatheca (Fig. 16) with irregularly curved cornu; corpus rounded; ramus rounded, about isodiametric; collum tube-shaped, slender, about equally long but much slenderer than ramus.</p><p>Etymology. The Latin name, meaning “with wide elytra”, refers to the obvious wide and flat body including elytra.</p><p>Biology. Type material was collected by sifting of litter in forest or collected under bark.</p><p>Differential diagnosis. Tapinomorphus latipennis Borovec &amp; Nakládal, sp. nov. is easy to separate from all other Tapinomorphus species by rostrum with very wide, densely squamose epifrons, at base as wide as distance between anterior borders of eyes, moderately short frons posteriorly contrastly separated from epifrons, female sternite VIII with plate umbrella-shaped, not pointed apically without longitudinal sclerites and also unusually flat and wide, lens-shaped elytra.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/3A338797FF8AFF91FF09EEDBFE470C41	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Borovec, Roman;Nakládal, Oto	Borovec, Roman, Nakládal, Oto (2020): Four new Tapinomorphus Hartmann species from Angola, Zambia and Zimbabwe (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Entiminae: Sciaphilini). Zootaxa 4838 (1): 128-136, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4838.1.7
3A338797FF89FF93FF09EEFEFA050C07.text	3A338797FF89FF93FF09EEFEFA050C07.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Tapinomorphus Hartmann 1904	<div><p>Key to Tapinomorphus with 5-segmented funicle</p><p>1. Semiappressed setae on elytra short, inconspicuous, about as long as half the width of one interval, hardly visible in lateral view. Funicle segment 1 1.7 × as long as segment 2. Pronotum wider, 1.6 × as wide as long. Small species, 2.1 mm long. Zambia ..................................................................... T. kudrnai Borovec &amp; Nakládal sp. nov.</p><p>- Erect setae on elytra long, conspicuous, distinctly longer than half the width of one interval, significant in lateral view. Funicle segments 1 and 2 equally long. Pronotum more slender, 1.5 × as wide as long. Larger species, 2.5 mm long.............. 2</p><p>2. Rows of erect elytral setae on all intervals. Rostrum more slender, 1.12 × as wide as long. Pronotum small in relation to elytra, 0.52 × as wide as elytra. Elytra short oval, 1.09 × as long as wide, with distinctly rounded sides. Penis subparallel-sided, with apex evenly tapered, apically, subtriangular, pointed. Angola ................. T. angolanus Borovec &amp; Nakládal, sp. nov.</p><p>- Rows of erect elytral setae only on alternate intervals. Rostrum wider, 1.45 × as wide as long. Pronotum wider in relation to elytra, 0.66 × as wide as elytra. Elytra oval, 1.24 × as long as wide, subparallel-sided. Penis from base tapered apically, tip shortly obtuse. Tanzania ................................................................... T. divergens Voss</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/3A338797FF89FF93FF09EEFEFA050C07	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Borovec, Roman;Nakládal, Oto	Borovec, Roman, Nakládal, Oto (2020): Four new Tapinomorphus Hartmann species from Angola, Zambia and Zimbabwe (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Entiminae: Sciaphilini). Zootaxa 4838 (1): 128-136, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4838.1.7
3A338797FF89FF93FF09EB86FCB50EF6.text	3A338797FF89FF93FF09EB86FCB50EF6.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Tapinomorphus verunkae Borovec & Nakladal 2020	<div><p>Tapinomorphus verunkae Borovec &amp; Nakládal, sp. nov.</p><p>http://zoobank.org/ urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: 8D372B78-4E99-4AB0-843A-54AAFF178BE5</p><p>(Figs 4, 19–21)</p><p>Type locality. Zimbabwe, Mt. Selinda, forêt de Chirinda .</p><p>Type material. Holotype: ♀, ‘I. R.S.A. C.-MUS. R.A. C., S. Rhodesia [Zimbabwe]: Mt. Selinda, forêt de Chirinda, 1300 m. VII.1960, N. Leleup [lgt.], Récolté dans l´humus’ (RMCA) . Paratypes: 3 ♀♀, the same data as holotype (RMCA) .</p><p>Description. Body length 2.25–2.44 mm, holotype 2.44 mm. Because the species is extremely similar to the previous one, T. latipennis sp. nov., the following descriptive part states only measurement and characters different from the description of T. latipennis sp. nov.</p><p>Elytra with irregularly sparsely scattered drop-shaped appressed scales, 4 scales across width of one interval. Each interval with one regular row of erect setae, setae weakly enlarged apicad, before the tip about as wide as one appressed scale, slightly longer than half the width of one interval, distance between setae separated by about twice their length (Fig. 4).</p><p>Rostrum (Figs 19, 20) 1.38–1.46 × as wide as long, at base 1.14–1.23 × as wide as at apex. Funicle 7-segmented, segment 1 2.1–2.3 × as long as wide and 1.7–1.9 × as long as segment 2, which is 1.7–1.8 × as long as wide; segments 3–5 isodiametric; segment 6 1.2–1.3 × as wide as long; segment 7 1.3–1.4 × as wide as long; club 1.8–1.9 × as long as wide. Pronotum very wide and short, 1.67–1.88 × as wide as long, 0.53–0.59 × as wide as elytra. Elytra rounded, flat, 1.02–1.05 × as long as wide. Intervals slender, about as narrow as half diameter of puncture. Tarsi with segment 2 1.3–1.4 × as wide as long; segment 3 1.3–1.4 × as wide as long and 1.4–1.6 × as wide as segment 2; onychium 1.3–1.4 × as long as segment 3. Spermatheca as in Fig. 21.</p><p>Etymology. In 2017, a small, beautiful daughter named Veronika Nakládalová was born to the junior author. In the Czech language, “Verunka”, is often used as a diminutive of the first name of “Veronika”. The species was named in her honor and the specific name verunkae is derived from this diminutive.</p><p>Biology. Type material was collected by sifting of forest litter.</p><p>Differential diagnosis. Tapinomorphus verunkae Borovec &amp; Nakládal, sp. nov. is by general habitus, mainly by rounded and flat elytra, short and wide pronotum, rostrum with very wide, densely squamose epifrons and sternite VIII in females not pointed apically without longitudinal sclerites similar only to T. latipennis Borovec &amp; Nakládal, sp. nov. From this species it can be distinguished mainly by elytra with erect setae, slightly longer than half of width of one interval, in lateral view 3–4 × as long as setae on pronotum (vs. semiappressed setae, about as long as a quarter of width of one interval, in lateral view equally long as setae on pronotum in T. latipennis Borovec &amp; Nakládal, sp. nov.), rostrum shorter, 1.38–1.46 × as wide as long (vs. rostrum longer, 1.28–1.33 × as wide as long in T. latipennis Borovec &amp; Nakládal, sp. nov.), and smaller punctures in elytral striae with intervals about as narrow as half diameter of puncture (vs. striae with bigger punctures with intervals very slender, narrower than half diameter of puncture in T. latipennis Borovec &amp; Nakládal, sp. nov.).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/3A338797FF89FF93FF09EB86FCB50EF6	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Borovec, Roman;Nakládal, Oto	Borovec, Roman, Nakládal, Oto (2020): Four new Tapinomorphus Hartmann species from Angola, Zambia and Zimbabwe (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Entiminae: Sciaphilini). Zootaxa 4838 (1): 128-136, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4838.1.7
