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group and elevated it to the generic level. Members of this genus are
widespread, occurring in North and Central America, Europe to Siberia,
Japan, China, and India.
Description. Body small (7.0 mm or less). Integument dark, with
green or blue metallic reflections. Pubescence abundant; setae long,
erect to semierect, dark. Head weakly conical in female, slightly
quadrate in male, not constricted behind eyes; surface sparsely to
moderately punctured, the interpuncture spaces forming longitudinal
ridges. Rostrum (Figs. 161, 162) with sides slightly arcuate to straight;
apex slightly broadened. Antennae (Fig. 162) inserted before middle of
rostrum; antennal club densely pubescent. Pronotum slightly wider
than long; sides arcuate; disc punctured. Elytra stout, broad; striae
punctured in even longitudinal rows, except randomly punctured in
H. aeneus; scutellar striae absent. Abdomen in male unmodifred.
Pygidium with apex exposed beyond elytra.
Type species. Rhynchites aeneus Boheman, subsequent
designation by Hamilton (7974).
Comments. Members of this genus are easily distinguished from
those of other genera by the absence of scutellar striae and by the long
elytra, which expose only the tip of the pygidium.
H aplorhynchlfes aeneus (Boheman)
Figs. 161, 162; Map 31
Rhynchites oeneuE Boheman, L829:I22 (lectotype,'America";
NHRM); Blatchley and Leng 1916:58.
Haplorhynchites aeneus: Hamilton 1969:323; Hamilton 1973:83;
Hamilton L974:792; O'Brien and Wibmer 1982:16.
Rhynchites (Inuoluulus) consobrinus Voss, 1938 : 159.
Inuoluulus consobrinus: Voss 1969:247.
Description. Length 3.9-6.6 mm. Body black throughout; venter
and tip of rostrum with faint greenish luster. Head conical, with
moderate punctures; interpuncture spaces forming irregular
longitudinal ridges. Rostrum slightly arcuate (Fig. 161), as long as head
and pronotum combined (female) or only 0.3 times longer than
pronotum (male); sides, in dorsal vieq expanded in apical fifth; apex
about 0.25 times wider than frons (FiS. 162). Antennae inserted in, or
just in front of, basal third ofrostrum (both sexes) (Fig. 162). Pronotum
about 1.2 times wider than long, widest behind middle; sides distinctly
arcuate; disc with shallow, close punctures; interpuncture spaces
shining, smooth, with rather coarse, erect, brown setae. Elytra about 1.2
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