Curculionoidea (weevils) of New Caledonia and Vanuatu: Basal families and some Curculionidae
Author
Kuschel, Guillermo
John T. Huber
text
Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle
2008
197
99
250
journal article
978-2-85653-605-6
1243-4442
Platysimus planidorsis
(Broun)
n. comb.
Fig. 57
Rhyncogonus planidorsis
Broun, 1910: 296
.
DESCRIPTION. — This species has the general facies of
P. insularis
but is on average quite a bit larger. Stria 5 is wider and more convex than 6 near the top of the declivity. The aedeagus is more than 4 x longer than wide at the
narrowest point between base and sides of the ostial area, and the apex is long. The spermatheca is like Thompson’s (1982) fig. 12 of
P. septentrionalis
but with a longer duct extension.
Length:
4.3-6.5 mm
.
TYPE MATERIAL
. — Described from a unique specimen.
Holotype
male, 4.8 x
2.3 mm
, 22,
Rhyncogonus planidorsis
Broun, BMNH. Identified
non-type specimens with
BPBM
,
IRSN
,
NZAC
.
MATERIAL EXAMINED
. —
Kermadec Is.
:
Meyer I.
,
Sunday I.
60 specimens
.