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 Elytrurus alatus Saunders & Jekel Fig. 31 Elytrurus alatus Saunders & Jekel, 1855: 290 , pl. 15: 1. — Marshall 1938: 75 , 90. — Paulian 1945: 196. DESCRIPTION. — Scaling green except for a white or pinkish dot on pronotum in front of scutellum, and a dot on the basal angles of elytra. Rostrum flat or shallowly impressed, lacking sublateral smooth lines. Strial puncta pupillated with round scales. Remainder of diagnostic characters in key to species above. 11.5-18.0 mm. TYPE MATERIAL . — Holotype male, 15.5 x 7.3 mm , ‘ Elytrurus alatus Saund. & Jekel, N. Hebrides’, NHML Identified non-type specimens with BPBM , NHML , NZAC . MATERIAL EXAMINED . — Vanuatu : Futuna. 24 specimens . ETYMOLOGY. — The species name ‘alátus’ refers to the wing-like expansions of the elytra. This species, as all others of the genus, is flightless. REMARKS. — Described from ‘Novae-Hebrides’ but known only from Futuna , a small island some 80 km E of Tanna I.