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Periapical granuloma is a pathological diagnosis associated clinically and radiographically with a nonvital tooth and a periapical radiolucency, respectively. It is frequently seen as a sequela of long-standing pulpal necrosis. Often times, a draining fistula is observed near the nonvital tooth. We report an unusual case of a large draining focal fibrous hyperplasia in association with a large periapical granuloma treated at our clinic. The diagnosis was made by the clinical presentation, radiologic and histopathologic findings.

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Neobruchidius lovie Johnson & Romero, new species Length (Pronotum��elytra) 1.5���1.8 mm. Width 1.0��� 1.1 mm. Maximum thoracic depth 0.9 ���1.0 mm. Male Integument color. Head and eyes black; antennae light brown to red orange; usually pronotum brown, varying from all black to all red orange; elytron usually all red orange surrounded by narrow stripe of brown, sometimes all red orange (fig. 3); meso�� and metathoracic sterna varying from light brown to usually all black; remainder of undersurfaces, legs and pygidium all red orange. Vestiture. With recumbent white hairs as follows: eye with medial fringe of white hairs; postocular lobe with short white hairs; postocular patch of sparse white hairs; remainder of head with sparse white hairs; dorsal surfaces with sparse white hairs, sterna with sparse white hairs, sometimes patches of moderately dense to dense white hairs on lateral margins of sterna. Structure Head. Slightly elongate, densely punctulate; frons with median, glabrous, finely punctulate line extending from frontoclypeal suture to vertex; vague transverse sulcus between upper limits of eyes; width of eye about 1.6 times wider than width of frons; ocular sinus about 2 / 5 as long as width of eye; posterior margin of eye protruding from adjacent surfaces; postocular lobe strong, rounded, not angulate; distance from base of antennae to apex of labrum about 1 / 2 as long as distance from upper limits of eyes to apex of labrum; antennal segments 1 and 3 usually filiform, 2 usually moniliform; 4 to 10 eccentric, 11 th subacute apically; 5 to 10 broader than long, 11 longer than broad; antenna reaching to about 0.5 length of elytron. Prothorax. Disk campanulate (fig. 3), with many punctations, punctations more coarse at base and lateral margins; cervical sulcus shallow, extending from near coxal cavity to about 1 / 2 distance to pronotal midline; lateral prothoracic carina vague, extending about 1 / 4 distance from base to coxal cavity; vague, short median impressed line on median basal lobe usually obscured by pubescence; prosternum separating procoxae from about 0.7 their length. Mesothorax and Metathorax. Scutellum small, slightly longer than broad, clothed with dense recumbent white hairs; elytron slightly longer than broad; striae deep, punctate, strial intervals rugulose; striae 2, 3 and 4, and 5 and 6 closer to one another at base than to adjacent striae (fig. 3); without spines at base of elytron; humerus rugulose; undersurfaces punctate; all of hind coxa punctate; hind femur constricted basally and apically, expanded medially to slightly less than width of coxa (fig. 1); inner ventral surface with a vague longitudinal carina, without lateral longitudinal carina; femur armed with an inner subapical acuminate spine about as long as width of tibial base; tibia with ventral, lateral, and dorsomesal glabrous longitudinal carinae, without lateroventral carina; dorsal surface without fossa; tibial corona with 3 to 4 spinules, mucro much shorter than 1 / 4 as long as 1 st tarsomere; without sinus at base of mucro; 1 st tarsomere with ventral, lateral and dorsal glabrous longitudinal carinae. Abdomen. Sterna not flattened medially; 1 st sternum about 2 / 3 as long as abdomen, posterior margin straight; sterna 2 to 4 unmodified, 5 th emarginate; pygidium punctulate, convex in lateral view. Genitalia. Median lobe elongate; in ventral view, ventral valve triangular, lateral margins concave, base about 3 / 4 as wide as apex of median lobe, arcuate in lateral view; without hinge sclerites; armature of internal sac consisting of many spicules extending almost to apex of internal sac; with about 5 small spines and round, sclerotized gonopore sclerite basally (fig. 4). Lateral lobes expanded apically, apices with many fine hairs medially and about 5 larger hairs; cleft to about 2 / 3 their length (fig. 5). Female Antennal segments 1 and 2 usually moniliform, 3 usually filiform; 4 to 10 slightly eccentric, 11 th subacute apically; 5 to 10 slightly broader than long, 11 longer than broad; antenna shorter than male, reaching to humerus; 5 th abdominal sternum not emarginate at apex, in a gentle curve. Host Plants. Unknown. Type Series Holotype male, allotype female and 11 paratypes: Panama. Panama: El Valle, 14 ��19, 1963, L. J. Bottimer Collection No. 117 i. Panama Canal Zone, 5 mi. NNE Arriajan, 31 �� VII�� 1962, H. & A. Howden. Venezuela. Aragua: 500 m., El Limon, Feb. 21, 1971, H. & A. Howden. Holotype, allotype, and six paratypes deposited in the Canadian National Collection of Insects, Ottawa. Two paratypes on loan to the Canadian National Collection of Insects, Ottawa, by H. and A. Howden, two deposited in the Jes��s Romero Collection, one deposited in the C. D. Johnson Collection, and two deposited in the Texas A&M University Collection. Etymology. The specific epithet is named after the mother of the first author, Lovie Mae Johnson, and is a noun in apposition to Neobruchidius. Diagnosis and Discussion Neobruchidius lovie is closely related to species in the genera Sennius and Acanthoscelides based on the characters given by Bridwell (1946) and later by Johnson and Kingsolver (1973). It differs distinctly from species of Sennius by lacking hinge sclerites in the male genitalia. It differs from most Sennius by having a mucro that is about 1 / 4 as long as the first tarsomere and from many species of Sennius with its large hind femoral spine, its small size, and its lack of colored markings on the elytra. Unfortunately the host seeds of N. lovie are unknown. When the host plants of N. lovie are discovered this will give a better basis for comparing the relationships between the two genera. Larvae of all species of Sennius known to us from Central America northward feed in seeds of Cassia (s. l.). Cassia (s. l.) seeds, of course, are fed upon by some species of Acanthoscelides. Johnson has unpublished records of some species of Sennius from northern South America that feed in seeds other than Cassia (s. l.). Therefore, host relationships offer few clues to the phylogeny of this species., Published as part of Johnson, C. D. & Romero-Napoles, J., 2006, Neobruchidius lovie, new genus and new species from Latin America (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Bruchinae), pp. 57-68 in Zootaxa 1123 on pages 63-66, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.171758, {"references":["Bridwell, J. C. (1946). The genera of beetles of the family Bruchidae in America north of Mexico. Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences, 36 (2), 52 - 57.","Johnson, C. D. & Kingsolver, J. M. (1973) A Revision of the Genus Sennius of North and Central America (Coleoptera: Bruchidae). Technical Bulletin of the U. S. Department of Agriculture. 1462, 135 pp."]}

Neobruchidus Johnson and Romero, New Genus Small to large bruchids in the tribe Acanthoscelidini with the following morphological characteristics: Head. Frons usually with median, glabrous line or carina extending from frontoclypeal suture to vertex, frons sometimes smooth, sometimes with granulate glabrous area on vertex with shallow pits on dorsomedial surface; eyes usually about as wide as or slightly wider than frons, sometimes eyes up to 2 times wider than frons; posterior margin of eye usually protruding from adjacent surfaces, sometimes merging smoothly into contour of head; antennae occasionally sexually dimorphic, distal segments usually slightly eccentric; antennae usually extending to humerus, sometimes varying to one��third length of elytra. Prothorax. Disk subcampanulate to conical, usually with coarse punctures; cervical sulcus on anterolateral margin; lateral carina varying from obsolete to incomplete to strong and extending almost to coxal cavity; usually short median impressed line on median basal lobe; procoxae contiguous at apices. Scutellum. Varying from small to large and transverse to elongate, usually quadrate; bifurcate at apex, covered with dense hairs. Elytra. About twice as long as broad; striae moderately to deeply impressed, subequal at base; often striae 3 and 4 closer to each other at base; striae sometimes abbreviated at base, often with small spines at base. Hind Leg. Femur usually expanded medially to about width of or wider than width of hind coxa; femur armed with one large subapical acuminate spine without additional smaller spines; mucro 0.05���1.3 times as long as tarsomere 1; usually without (but occasionally with) a deep sinus at the base of an elongated dorsal coronal spine at apex of hind tibia (fig. 2). Abdomen. Usually with sterna unmodified, sternum 1 occasionally with round patch of white hairs or with medial round or elongate depression or both, sometimes with elongate hairs; ventral surface of abdomen sometimes arcuate; pygidium ranging from evenly rounded to strongly convex; apical margin of last sternum slightly to strongly emarginate to receive apex of pygidium, apical margin of last sternum of females usually without emargination. Male Genitalia. Usually without dorsal hood at apex; armature of internal sac ranging from only a lining of spicules to large spines; without hinge sclerites; lateral lobes cleft for a part of their length. Type species of the Genus. Neobruchidius lovie Johnson & Romero. Diagnosis. Neobruchidius, may be separated from Acanthoscelides using the following characters: a) femur armed with one large subapical acuminate spine without additional smaller spines, b) femur usually expanded medially to about width of or wider than width of hind coxa, c) mucro 0.05���1.3 times as long as tarsomere 1. The terminology of the parts of the male genitalia follows that proposed by Kingsolver (1970) and Romero & Johnson (2000), the terminology of the parts of the hind leg follows that of Johnson & Kingsolver (1973). Discussion. According to Borowiec (1987) and Johnson (1983, 1990) Acanthoscelides and Bruchidius have been used as genera into which species are placed that do not fit within the limits of other genera. For exmaple Sulcobruchus, Conicobruchus, Megabruchidius, Kingsolverius, Decellebruchus and Salvibruchus were separated from Bruchidus. In Acanthoscelides genus is occurring the same process, Abutiloneus use to be part of this later genus and we continue with the clarification of the genus. At least the new genus Neobruchidius is probably, it may be separated from Acanthoscelides using the following characters mentioned in the generic diagnois above. The strongest character is the first one., Published as part of Johnson, C. D. & Romero-Napoles, J., 2006, Neobruchidius lovie, new genus and new species from Latin America (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Bruchinae), pp. 57-68 in Zootaxa 1123 on pages 61-62, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.171758, {"references":["Johnson, C. D. & Kingsolver, J. M. (1973) A Revision of the Genus Sennius of North and Central America (Coleoptera: Bruchidae). Technical Bulletin of the U. S. Department of Agriculture. 1462, 135 pp.","Borowiec, L. (1987) The genera of seed-beetles. Polskie Pismo Entomologczne, 57, 3 - 207."]}