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 Rhinoscapha vanuatensis n. sp. Fig. 14 DESCRIPTION. — Scaling white, grey, yellowish or pinkish brown, or coppery, but no green scales anywhere, on elytra across middle of dorsum with a broad, pale band in male, with short stripes on odd interstriae in female. Rostrum and prothorax largely as in R. meridiana . Scutellum not longer than wide. Elytra slightly but noticeably depressed at base from shoulder to shoulder, withh well-marked striae, with stria 3 joining 6, 4 joining 5, and 7 joining 8; interstriae flat, with minute setiferous puncta. Metasternum posteriorly, in front of intercoxal process of ventrite 1, lacking black bare lines. Male: tergite 4 lacking pruinose patches; tergite 7 uniformly rounded at apex, its latero-apical area of pruinose patches with numerous larger puncta. Tegmen and aedeagus similar to those of R. meridiana , but aedeagal body with a slight waist between base and ostial area, and apex not so strongly curved downwards, and without a longitudinal depression dorsally on midline. Female: not dissected. Length: 17-26 mm . TYPE MATERIAL . — Holotype male, 19.0 x 8.0 mm, Vilakalaka, Aoba, 27.X.1965 , MNHN . Paratypes with BPBM , NZAC , SRFP . MATERIAL EXAMINED . — Vanuatu . Maewo : 1 female , Kerepei , 0-200 m , XII.1983 , NLH Krauss. Aoba: 2 males , Vilakalaka, 27.X.1965 . Pentecost: 2 males , 3 females , X-XI.1965; 1 male , Central, 20.II.1984 , Palaud David. 9 specimens . HOSTPLANTS. — No data. ETYMOLOGY. — The species name ‘vanuaténsis’, a patronymic name from Vanuatu . REMARKS. — R. vanuatensis differs from all other eupholines known to me by the way the elytral striae 3 to 8 are joined posteriorly as well as by the absence of bare metasternal lines.