A Review Of The Genus Curculio From China With Descriptions Of New Taxa. Part III. The Curculio subfenestratus Voss Group (Curculionidae: Curculioninae: Curculionini)
Author
Pelsue, Frank W.
Author
Zhang, Runzhi
text
The Coleopterists Bulletin
2002
2002-03-31
56
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1
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1649/0010-065x(2002)056[0001:arotgc]2.0.co;2
journal article
10.1649/0010-065X(2002)056[0001:AROTGC]2.0.CO;2
1938-4394
10102918
Curculio carlae
Pelsue and Zhang
,
new species
Figs. 31–32
, 91–93
HOLOTYPE
.
China
.
Xishuangbanna
: male [
China
/
Yunnan
/Xishuanbanna/
900 m
/
29 June 1958
/
Y. Zhang
] (
IZAS
).
Description.
Male:
length: 4.2 mm (n = 1). width: 2.1 mm (n = 1).
Head:
mediumsized; punctures small, with fine, small, narrow, elongate, testaceous scales; diffuse ventromedial macula of small, white scales.
Rostrum:
length: 2.0 mm (n = 1); 0.48 as long as body; subcylindrical, base to antennal insertion dilated, then narrowing to apex; 5 dorsal carinae from frons to distad of antennal insertion, with deep, squarish, punctures between carinae; almost straight to antennal insertion, then slightly arced to apex; scrobe ventral; scape inserted at midpoint.
Antennae:
length: scape
0.8 mm
; funiculus: segment one
0.25 mm
, two
0.2 mm
, three
0.1 mm
, four
0.1 mm
, five
0.1 mm
, six
0.1 mm
, seven
0.1 mm
, club
0.3 mm
, funicle
0.95 mm
(n = 1); scape 0.84 as long as funicle; vestiture glabrous; club compact, oval, as long as funicular segments 5–7.
Thorax:
length:
1.2 mm
(n = 1); width:
1.7 mm
(n = 1); 0.7 as long as broad; disc with middorsal longitudinal carina, margins evenly rounded from broad base to constriction, punctures small, clothed with narrow, elongate, testaceous and white scales mixed; flat in lateral view; anteroventral macula of clavate, white scales; base almost straight; mesosternal intercoxal process prominent with white scales; scutellum very small, broader than long, triangular, bifid, glabrous; mesepimeron, mesepisternum, metepisternum, and metasternum clothed with short, clavate, dirty white scales.
Elytra:
length:
2.6 mm
(n = 1); striae deep, narrow, with small deep punctures; humeri rounded; disc flat in lateral view; intervals narrow, flat, with narrow, elongate, cinerous to testaceous scales; crosshatched setae short.
Legs:
length of hind femur
1.8 mm
(n = 1), all femora with teeth mediumsized, acute apex; pro and metafemoral clava large about same size, mesofemoral clava smaller; all femora clothed with narrow, elongate, dirty white scales; tibiae sinuate, pro, meso and metauncus large.
Abdomen:
sternite 1 longer than 2 behind coxal cavity; sternite 3 and 4 same length, combined longer than 5; sternite 5 truncate with lateral tuft of short setalike scales; vestiture of all sternites of clavate, dirty white scales.
Pygidium
:
small with short testaceous setalike scales.
Genitalia:
median lobe
0.75 mm
(n = 1) in length;
0.2 mm
(n = 1) in width, margins even to near apex, rather thickwalled, abruptly tapering to narrow, elongate apex in dorsal view; thickened, almost even lacking any significant arc except for apex in lateral view; apodeme
1.1 mm
(n = 1) in length (Figs. 91–93).
Remarks.
Can be separated from remainder of group by the male genitalia.
Etymology.
Named in honor of the senior author’s daughterinlaw Carla Yandura Pelsue.