A taxonomic revision of the genus Baldorhynchus (Di Marco & Osella, 2002) stat. n. (Coleoptera, Curculionidae, Entiminae)
Author
Bello, Cesare
Author
Osella, Giuseppe
Author
Baviera, Cosimo
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Zootaxa
2016
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Baldorhynchus comottii
(Osella, 1983)
stat. n.
(
Figures 32, 32a, 32b, 32c, 32d, 32e, 32f
,
68
,
121
)
Troglorhynchus moczarskii
ssp.
comottii
Osella, 1983: 95
-123;
Abbazzi & Osella, 1992
: 302
; Abbazzi
et al.
, 1994: 21.
Troglorhynchus moczarskii comottii
:
Osella & Zuppa, 1998
: 1126
-1127.
Otiorhynchus
(
Troglorhynchus
)
moczarskii comottii
:
Magnano, 1998
: 71
.
Otiorhynchus
(
Baldorhynchus
)
moczarskii
ssp.
comottii
:
Di Marco & Osella, 2002
: 258
;
Colonnelli, 2003
: 39
;
Abbazzi & Maggini, 2009
: 53
; Magnano & Alonso Zarazaga.
Type
locality.
“
Bus
Val Dé
,
860 m
, Gazzaniga, Bergamo”.
Diagnosis.
A
Baldorhynchus
of oval shape and of large size (length
4.80 mm
.) belonging to the
B. moczarskii
group with elytra length/width ratio 2.00. Within the species group it is distinguished for the body size generally small, the elongate rostrum, not gibbose and slightly carinate. Punctation of the pronotum coarse, irregularly scattered, dense and strongly deep. Elytral punctation small, isodiametric, dense, deep but no perfectly aligned. Total length:
4.80 mm
. Elytra with length/width ratio 1.97. Pronotum length 1.00 mm with length/width ratio 1.18.
Description.
See Osella (1983) and figures
hoc opus.
Holotype
.
Female. Total length:
4.80 mm
. Scape length: 1.00 mm; funicle length: 1.00 mm. Scape length/ funicle length ratio: 1.00. Funicle with club ratios: 13: 8: 6: 7: 5: 6: 5: 27 (club). Vestigial eyes present, barely visible, partially covered by yellowish pubescence. Vertex width/mesorostrum width: ratio 1.70. Pronotum ratio: 1.18 (length: 1.00 mm, width:
0.85 mm
). Elytra ratio: 1.97 (length:
2.80 mm
, width:
1.42 mm
).
Male.
Not known.
Distribution.
See Osella (1983) and
Fig. 132
. Italian endemic. Known only from “Büs Val Dé” (n°1038 LoBG) cave at 860 meters of elevation in “Val di Plaz” locality near Gazzaniga, Bergamo. The geographical coordinates of the locality “Galleria superiore delle Fiorine” old mine at 600 meters of elevation:
45.875526° N
,
9.928490° E
.
FIGURES 32–32f
—
Baldorhynchus comottii
(Osella, 1983)
holotype
♀
from “Bus Val Dé,
860 m
, Gazzaniga, Bergamo”: 32—habitus, dorsal view (scale bar:
1 mm
); 32a—habitus, lateral view; 32b—rostrum, lateral view; 32c—pronotum; 32delytra punctuation; 32e—funicle and club; 32f—spermatheca.
Material.
We
examined the material studied by
Osella
(1983).
Other
material
: “
Val Seriana
, BG
[
Bergamo
],
Clusone
,
Fiorine
,
Via Valflos
, 9 0 5 1990,
R. Monguzzi
” (
RMO
), one female genitalia were examined; "
Lombardia
, BG [
Bergamo
],
Clusone
, galleria superiore delle
Fiorine
,
13.VIII.2013
,
Pedersoli D.
Leg.” (
MGR
), one female genitalia were examined; "
Lombardia
, BG [
Bergamo
],
Clusone
, galleria superiore delle
Fiorine
,
5.X.2013
,
Bodei L.
leg.” (
MGR
), one female (abdomen). "IT,
Lombardia
, BG [
Bergamo
],
Clusone
,
580 m
,
Grotta di Via Val Flesh
, 1496 LoBG,
18 III 2015
, leg. Pedersoli D." (CBE): one female genitalia were examined.
Ecology/Phenology.
See Osella (1983).
Reproduction.
Probably parthenogenetic. Species known only from five females.
Systematic notes.
In this work, we elevate the taxon
Otiorhynchus
(
Baldorhynchus
)
moczarskii comottii
(Osella, 1983)
to species level as
Baldorhynchus comottii
(Osella, 1983)
.