A taxonomic monograph of the Middle American leaf-litter inhabiting weevil genus Theognete Champion (Coleoptera: Curculionidae; Molytinae; Lymantini) 2458
Author
Anderson, Robert S.
text
Zootaxa
2010
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journal article
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47.
Theognete braunae
Anderson
,
new species
(
Figures 10
,
22
,
26
,
145
,
180
,
215
)
Diagnosis.
Size. Length, male,
3.09–3.37mm
; female,
3.43–3.71mm
. Width, male,
1.74–1.91mm
; female,
1.97–2.02mm
. As for
T. campbelli
but pronotum subcordate, punctures shallow and not as dense; flanks of pronotum with punctures subcontiguous but not forming sulci. Elytra with scales very sparse, short, with apices distant, not overlapping. Aedeagus as in
Fig. 180
.
Geographical distribution
.
Guatemala
(
Baja Verapaz
).
Natural history
. Collected from berlese extraction of riparian bottomland oak forest leaf litter at an elevation of
1600m
.
Derivation of specific name
. Through his support of the Nature Discovery Fund at the Canadian Museum of Nature, this species is named after Maurya Braun of Edmonton,
Alberta
,
Canada
, as a gift from Scott Digweed.
Material examined
.
25♂
,
9♀♀
(
CMNC
,
CWOB
,
UVGC
).
Holotype
♂
(
CMNC
):
GUATEMALA
:
Baja Verapaz
.
14.5km
S. Purulha
,
1600m
,
26.V.1991
,
R. Anderson
, riparian bottomland oak forest litter, 91-27
/
HOLOTYPE
♂
,
Theognete braunae
sp. nov.
,
R. S. Anderson. Aedeagus
extracted.
Paratypes
: GUATE- MALA.
Baja Verapaz
.
Purulha
(
14.5 km
S.),
1600m
,
21.V.1991
.
R. Anderson
, riparian bottomland oak forest litter, 91-7 (
11♂
,
4♀♀
CMNC
,
CWOB
).
Same
data except:
26.V.1991
,
R. Anderson
, riparian bottomland oak forest litter, 91-27 (
13♂
,
5♀♀
CMNC
,
UVGC
)
.
Chorological relationships
. Not known to be sympatric with any other species of
Theognete
.