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 Baladaeus insularum n. sp. Fig. 70 DESCRIPTION. — This species is readily separated from B. macgillivrayi by the characters indicated above in the key, in particular by the number of epistomal vibrissae, shape of prothorax, and absence of a glabrous line or dot right against scutellum at the base of elytra. Length: 2.5-4.6 mm . TYPE MATERIAL . — Holotype male, 3.0 x 1.2 mm , Kanala , Coll. Fauvel , IRSN . 171 paratypes at BPBM , IRSN , MNHN , NZAC , SMT .D, SRFP . MATERIAL EXAMINED . — New Caledonia . Col d’Amieu (3, Kus- Pins (1, Coll. Fauvel ). Loyalty Is : Lifou ( Képenée , 1, Sarasin and chel), Kanala (3, Coll. Fauvel ), La Foa (1, Mille ), La Crouen (1, Roux ), Maré (5 on oranges, Rossolin ; 1, Krauss ). Vanuatu . Espíritu Sedlacek ), La Coulée (1, Yoshimoto ), ‘ New Caledonia’ (1, Deyrol- Santo ( Louganville , 2, Gressitt ; Matantas , 1, Nishida , Samuelson ); le), Nouméa (1, Coll. Fauvel ), Plum (10 on oranges, ORSTOM ), Malekula ( North Lakatoro , 93, Sedlacek ; Port Sandwich , 3, Gagne , Sarraméa (7, Krauss ), Yahoué (6, Kuschel ; 2, Yoshimoto ). Île des Nishida , Samuelson ); Efate ( Erakor , 1, May ). 175 specimens . ETYMOLOGY. — The species name ‘insulárum’ is the genitive plural case of insulae, the islands.