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
20.
Peridinetus lugubris
Prena
,
sp. n.
(
Fig. 52, 53
)
Diagnosis.
Peridinetus lugubris
is a stout species near
P. frontalis
that can be recognized by the conspicuous yellow marks on frons and elytron (
Fig. 52
).
Description.
Total length
4.2–4.8 mm
, standard length 4.0–
4.6 mm
. Integument dark brown, antenna and tarsi rufous; basic vestiture of small whitish, cupreous and brown setae; large yellow setae on frons and at base of rostrum, in median pronotal vitta and in spots on pronotum and elytron (
Fig. 52
). Rostrum 1.05–1.07
×
length of pronotum, antenna inserted at mid-length of rostrum. Pronotum 0.76–0.83
×
longer than wide, subparallel to slightly rounded in basal half, constricted and tubulate in front; disk densely punctate to granulose, not costate. Elytra 1.42–1.54
×
longer than wide, humeri 1.41–1.46
×
wider than pronotum, sides gradually converging in basal half; striae distinct and punctate, interstriae not ridged, preapical callus inconspicuous; tarsal claws subconnate.
Distribution.
This species has been found in
Costa Rica
and on the Pacific side of
Ecuador
.
Plant association.
Peperomia pseudoalpina
(Prena 1
×
).
Type
material.
Holotype
male, labeled “
COSTA RICA
: Heredia/ Est. Biol. La Selva, 50–/
150 m
,
10 26 N
84 0 1 W
/ Proy.
ALAS
, INBio-OET”, “FOT/46/01–40/ Eugenia sp. / 0
5 Enero 2000
”,
CRI
002 228252, “
HOLOTYPUS
/
Peridinetus
/
lugubris
/ Prena, 2010” (
INBC
).
Paratypes
6 (
4 males
,
2 females
):
Costa Rica
. Guanacaste: Tierras Morenas, Río San Lorenzo,
1050 m
, 23.3.–
21.4.1992
, A. Marin,
CRI
000 413159 and 413164 (
INBC
2). Puntarenas: Monteverde, Campbell’s Woods,
1550 m
,
26.v.1989
, J. Ashe, R. Leschen, R. Brooks (
CMNC
1); Monteverde, Est. Biológica,
1600 m
,
30.vi.–9.vii.2009
, J. Prena (
JPPC
1). San José: Zurquí de Moravia,
1600 m
, Malaise trap,
iv–v.1993
, P. Hanson (
CWOB
1).
Ecuador
. Pichincha: E Santo
Domingo
,
8.–14.v.1988
, Bohart & Hanson (
CWOB
1).
Specific epithet.
The name is a Latin adjective meaning “mourning”.