A taxonomic monograph of the Middle American leaf-litter inhabiting weevil genus Theognete Champion (Coleoptera: Curculionidae; Molytinae; Lymantini) 2458
Author
Anderson, Robert S.
text
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2010
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83.
Theognete adarmstrongae
Anderson
,
new species
(
Figures 252
,
269
,
286
)
Diagnosis.
Size. Length, male,
3.63mm
; female,
3.12mm
. Width, male,
2.30mm
; female,
2.04mm
. As for
T. kaulbarsi
but sutural interval of elytra not impressed or punctate; posterolateral area of elytra punctate; basal margin of elytra in humeral region not toothed. Tergite VIII in female emarginate in middle. Aedeagus as in
Fig. 269
.
Geographical distribution
.
México
(
Chiapas
).
Natural history
. Collected from berlese extraction of mixed oak-pine forest leaf litter at
1550m
and dry oak forest litter at
1750m
near the base of the upper peak of Cerro Bola.
Derivation of specific name
. Through their support of the Nature Discovery Fund at the Canadian Museum of Nature, this species is named after Audrey D. Armstrong of Peterborough,
Ontario
,
Canada
, as a gift from her husband, Kenneth Armstrong.
Material examined
.
2♂
,
1♀
(
CMNC
,
UNAM
)
Holotype
♂
(
UNAM
):
MÉXICO
:
Chiapas
.
Municipio Villa Corso
,
Ejido Sierra Morena, R
.
Biosfera La Sepultura
,
16º09’10.6” N
,
93º35’25.1” W
.,
1550m
,
17–18.VII.2003
,
R. Anderson
, mixed oak-pine forest litter, 2003-110A
/
HOLOTYPE
♂
,
Theognete adarmstrongae
sp. nov.
R.S. Anderson. Aedeagus extracted.
Paratypes
:
MÉXICO
.
Chiapas
.
Municipio Villa Corso
,
Ejido Sierra Morena, R
.
Biosfera La Sepultura
,
16º09’10.6” N
,
93º35’25.1” W
.,
1550m
,
17–18.VII.2003
,
R. Anderson
, mixed oak-pine forest litter, 2003- 110A (
1♀
CMNC
). Municipio Villa Corso, Sierra Morena,
16.13663º N
,
93.59875º W
.,
1750m
,
14.V.2008
,
M. Branstetter
#745 (
1♀
CMNC
)
.
Chorological relationships
. This species is not sympatric with any other species of
Theognete
.