Nemonychidae and Anthribidae of Wisconsin (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea)
Author
Janicki, Julia
Author
Young, Daniel K.
text
Insecta Mundi
2017
2017-10-27
2017
579
1
36
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.5169237
1942-1354
5169237
72D7076B-FB3E-442B-BD55-43342373ACE2
Gonotropis dorsalis
(Thunberg)
(Fig. 35–36)
Anthribus dorsalis
Thunberg 1796: 146
.
Gonotropis gibbosus
LeConte 1876: 394
.
Tropideres dorsalis
(Thunberg)
;
Wolfrum 1929: 55
.
Description.
Length 4.5–6.0mm (head excluded). Vestiture on pronotum dense, sparser laterally, white apically and laterally, forming brownish, triangular, median spot; vestiture on elytral base forming a large spot of light-brown to white setae extending laterally to 5
th
interstria, remainder of elytra with light to dark brown setae and scattered white setae. Rostrum covered with dense, white setae. Frons flattened, without carinae; surface sculpture concealed by dense white setae except at lateral and apical angles. Pronotal width 1.5–1.6X length, widest at base; sides angulate basally, straight, and then strongly converging to narrowly rounded apex; base broadly emarginate, transverse carina antebasal, acute, strongly elevated, angulate medially towards scutellum, lateral carinae acute, strongly elevated; pronotal surface dark, dull, setaceous, densely reticulate, with deep punctures; pronotal disc distinctly impressed medially, less distinctly impressed basally. Elytral length 1.3X width, broadly rounded apically; striae with very deep, small punctures in regular rows; interstriae 3, 5 and 7 distinctly elevated, broadly tuberculate, base of 3
rd
interstria with one prominent elevation. Pygidium vertical, broadly rounded apically in both sexes.
Diagnosis.
Gonotropis dorsalis
can be recognized by the prominent elevations on the elytral bases, white frons and rostrum, large patch of whitish-yellow setae that is almost an inverse heart shape basally on the elytra, and by the patch of triangular brown setae basomedially on the pronotum.
Natural history.
This species has been recorded from “dead hemlock”. It was also recorded on dry branches of oak (
Quercus
spp.
) and birch (
Betula
spp.
) in Europe (
Pierce 1930
), as well as on poplar (
Populus
spp.
) (
Downie and Arnett 1996
).
Valentine (1998)
elaborated on
one specimen
from Madison,
Wisconsin
with a long label: “Hybrid poplar, Madison Wis. Beetle issued from callous around a canker.
Aug. 1952
Dr. Waterman, Pathologist New Haven, Conn. Sent by J. V. Schaffner, Jr.”
Phenology.
No additional data for
Wisconsin
.
Collecting methods.
In
Wisconsin
,
two specimens
examined represent a
NEW STATE RECORD
. This series of specimens had meager label data associated with them: “before
Oct 1897
”, without county or phenological data.