Zyzzyva

{{Short description|Genus of beetles}}

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{{Distinguish|Zyzzyzus}}

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| image = Zyzzyva sp., lateral view, SG-BCISP-7750.jpg

| display_parents = 2

| taxon = Zyzzyva

| authority = Casey, 1922

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision =

• Z. rufula Hustache 1951
• Z. ochreotecta {{small|Casey, 1922}}

| type_species = Zyzzyva ochreotecta

| type_species_authority = Casey, 1922

}}

Zyzzyva {{IPAc-en|ˈ|z|ɪ|z|ᵻ|v|ə}} is a genus of South American weevils, often found on or near palm trees.{{cite news |author-last=Andrews |author-first=Travis M. |date=2017-06-27 |newspaper=Washington Post |title=The Oxford English Dictionary has a new last word. Bet you can't pronounce it. |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/06/27/the-oxford-english-dictionary-has-a-new-last-word-bet-you-cant-pronounce-it/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170627114132/https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/06/27/the-oxford-english-dictionary-has-a-new-last-word-bet-you-cant-pronounce-it/ |url-status=live |archive-date=2017-06-27 |access-date=2021-06-27}} It was first described in 1922 by Thomas Lincoln Casey Jr., based on specimens obtained in Brazil by Herbert Huntingdon Smith.{{rp|2,369}}

Casey describes Zyzzyva ochreotecta in his book Memoirs on the Coleoptera, Volume 10:{{cite book|title=Memoirs on the Coleoptera|volume= 10 |author-last=Casey |author-first=Thomas L. |author-link=Thomas Lincoln Casey Jr. |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15912352 |date=1922 |location=Lancaster, PA |publisher=New Era |doi=10.5962/bhl.title.15993 |id={{BHL page|15912352}}}}{{rp|369–370}}

{{blockquote|Rather broadly oblong-oval, convex, densely clothed with scales, ochreous and very uniform above, completely concealing the sculpture; beak (♂) scarcely longer than the prothorax, thick, distinctly arcuate, compressed basally, finely, closely punctate, longitudinally furrowed and carinate above; antennae obscure rufous; prothorax two-fifths wider than long, the sides parallel and nearly straight in basal two-fifths, thence oblique and nearly straight to the apex, which is truncate and much less than half as wide as the base; parallel scales dense and directed longitudinally in great part; elytra a third longer than wide, a fifth or sixth wider than the prothorax and nearly two and one-half times as long, the sides parallel, broadly, circularly rounded in apical third, the sutural angle not reëntrant; pygidium closely but not densely clothed with slender and suberect pale squamules; under surface without sexual mark, the first ventral suture fine but very distinct throughout, the others coarse, the fourth not reflexed at the sides. Length 4.3 mm.; width 2.0 mm. Brazil (Santarem). One specimen.}}