Notes on brentidae. I. (Col. Brentidae)

Abstract

The author studied some species of Coleopterous insects belonging to the family Brentidae (tribe Arrhenodini). He describes the female allotype of Schoenfeldtia impressicollis Senna, 1893, and three new species of Vianodes H. Rossi, 1955: Vianodes cyriodontoides, sp. n., Vianodes quadridentaticollis, sp. n., Vianodes spinipennis, sp. n. He also considers Pararrhenodes misionensis (= misionera) H. Rossi, 1954, as synonymous with Vianodes appositus (Kleine, 1923), and Vianodes vampyrus (Senna, 1897) – only males were known - as synonymous with Rhynchoneus belti Sharp, 1895 - only females were known.