The genus Sicoderus Vanin 1986 (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Curculioninae: Erodiscini) in the West Indies Author Anderson, Robert S. text Zootaxa 2018 2018-10-10 4497 3 301 345 journal article 29174 10.11646/zootaxa.4497.3.1 55770274-cac7-4dde-871a-6c4cf42522c5 1175-5326 1454868 FED8ED2E-510F-4596-A31B-59E6DF73919C Sicoderus aeneus Anderson , n. sp. ( Figures 1–2 , 9 . Map 2) http://zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:D57E3303-1AAC-4182-8F7D-409E5EFAF3C0 Description: Length male, 5.5 mm ; female, 6.1 mm . Integument black, shining with somewhat greenish-brown reflection. Eyes rather widely separated by a distance about two-thirds width rostrum at midlength. Rostrum 1.11x length elytra in male; 1.41x length elytra in female. Antennal insertion slightly beyond midlength in male, at about midlength in female. Prothorax constricted anteriorly, globose, widest at about middle; punctures widely spaced, very small, very shallow on disc and laterally on flanks; no setae present. Elytra in dorsal view widest at about midlength, lateral margins convergent both anteriorly and posteriorly; humeri fully reduced, not at all angulate; no setae present. Strial punctures evident, very small, very shallow; striae not impressed. Membranous wings absent. Abdominal ventrite 1 of male near posterior margin with two small patches of fine setosity; of female, uniformly convex in middle near posterior margin. Ventrite 5 impressed medially in male, uniformly convex in female. Legs with front femora with small tooth on ventral margin, middle and hind femora simple, lacking tooth; tarsal claws with small basal tooth. Aedeagus (fig. 9) widest at apex, internal sac with pair of basal sclerites subparallel, slightly hooked at base. Female not dissected. Material examined: 1 male , 1 female . Holotype male ( CWOB ), labelled HAITI : Department du Sud , Formond , 1650m , 28.i.1984 , S.R. Yocum , beating bamboo and ferns. Paratype . Data as holotype ( 1 female ; CWOB ) . Derivation of species name: This species is named ‘aeneus’ after the greenish-brown metallic reflection of the cuticle. Natural History: Two specimens were collected beating bamboo and ferns at 1650m elevation. Comments: This species is similar to S. striatolateralis and S. pseudostriatolateralis in the very fine punctation of the pronotum, but unlike those two species the posterolateral pronotal flange is not microstriate.