Mythapion

Body length 1.8–2.0 mm. Vestiture of pronotum and elytra yellowish, minute, inconspicuous; scales around eye similar in length and coarseness to those on sides of prothorax and femora. Rostrum sexual dimorphism reduced to average; male without expansion on ventral margin near antennal insertion; in dorsal view distinctly broader at base and narrowing abruptly beyond antennal insertion (rufonigrum) or slender, parallel-sided in basal third (trifolianum); in profile moderately curved, gradually narrowing from antennal insertion to apex, dorsal margin a curved line from anterior margin of eye to apex. Head dorsal margin broadly declivitous above basal margin of eye. Pronotum surface finely alutaceous, punctures shallow, sparse, minute to moderately dense, moderately deep, moderately coarse. Elytral striae shallow, fine, punctures minute, essentially glabrous. Parameres with sides produced into narrow vertical curtain surrounding median lobe; apical lobes and postfenestral plate subequal; apical lobes a single lobe with scattered sensilla; macrochaetae absent to present; fenestrae separated medially.

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