The Middle American species of Peridinetus Schönherr (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Baridinae)
Author
Prena, Jens
text
Zootaxa
2010
2507
1
36
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.195971
e3eee8e4-bbb7-478c-a86b-55b36c3ec399
1175-5326
195971
26.
Peridinetus nodicollis
Champion
(
Fig. 64, 65
)
Peridinetus nodicollis
Champion, 1907
: 178
.
Seidlitz (1909: 326)
,
Hustache (1938: 9)
,
Blackwelder (1947: 887)
,
O’Brien &
Wibmer (1982
: 178
).
Diagnosis.
Peridinetus nodicollis
is a small species with glabrous pronotal disk and rather inconspicuous color pattern (
Fig. 64
). The elytron has narrow white stripes on the base of interstria 3 and in the distal section of the ill-defined ochreous fascia. The studied specimens were
2.9–3.8 mm
long (standard length
2.8–3.7 mm
).
Distribution.
This species has been found on both sides of the Cordillera de Talamanca in
Costa Rica
, in
Panama
and on the Pacific side of
Ecuador
(not recorded from
Colombia
). It is here newly recorded for South
America
.
Plant association.
Piper deductum
(Prena 1
×
).
Type
material.
2
syntypes
,
Panamá
, Bugaba (
BMNH
1) and Volcán (
BMNH
1).
Material examined.
Costa Rica
. Limón: Amubri,
70 m
(
INBC
3); Manzanilla,
50 m
(
INBC
2). Puntarenas: Buenos Aires,
550 m
(
INBC
1);
Osa, P.N. Corcovado, Est. Agujas
,
300 m
(
INBC
1,
JPPC
1), Est. Esquinas,
200 m
(
INBC
3), Est. Sirena,
10 m
(
INBC
11), Est. Leona,
50 m
(
JPPC
1);
Osa, Rancho Quemado
,
200 m
(
INBC
4); Osa, Río Rincón (
JPPC
2); Osa,
5 mi
SW Rincón (
CHAH
1); R.B. Carara, Est. Quebrada Bonita,
50 m
(
INBC
33); Quepos, P.N. Manuel Antonio,
80 m
(
INBC
13,
JPPC
3).
Panamá
. Bocas del Toro: Corriente Grande,
100 m
(
HPSC
1);
15 km
SSW Changuinola,
300 m
(
JPPC
2). Canal Area: Barro Colorado Island (
CHAH
1); Coco Solo Hospital (
HPSC
1); Madden Forest (
CHAH
1); Pipeline Road (
HPSC
1). Chiriquí: Bugaba (
BMNH
1); Volcán (
BMNH
1). Coclé: El Valle,
750 m
(
HPSC
2). Colón: Portobelo (
USNM
6); XX Plantation (
USNM
1). Darién:
Cana
,
450 m
(
HPSC
1).
Panamá
: Cerro Campana,
850 m
(
CHAH
1).
Ecuador
. Esmeraldas: Canton San Lorenzo, Chuchubi (
CWOB
2); Los Ríos: Río Palenque Station (
CNCI
1). Pichincha: Maquipucuna Res., Cerro Nanegal (
CWOB
2); Santo
Domingo
de los Colorados,
550 m
(
AMNH
1). Total
105 specimens
.