Description of a neotype and designation of four lectotypes from Borneo in the genus Curculio (Coleoptera: Curculionidae)
Author
Pelsue, Frank W.
text
Zootaxa
2010
2384
44
52
journal article
1175-5326
Curculio sellatus
(Marshall)
Balaninus sellatus
Marshall 1919: 395
Type material:
Neotype
male:“
Borneo
,
Sabah
,
TrusMadi
1900m
/
200km
ESE Cota
[=
Kota
]
Kinabalu
/
20- 24-V-1995
/ UV light” and “
J. Matsu
&
D. Bouchard
/ equator montane for.” and “
NEOTYPE
Curculio sellatus
(Marshall)
des. Pelsue 2005” (
BMNH
).
Other specimen:
male same data as Neotype (
CWOB
).
FIGURES 4.
C. quincunx
,
male; (a) dorsal habitus; (b) lateral habitus.
Description:
Male
3.6 mm
long;
1.7 mm
wide. Head with large punctures and well defined margins; glabrous; eyes round, finely faceted; frons 0.20 as broad as head across eyes with deep interocular foveae. Rostrum
2.8 mm
long; 0.77 as long as body; derm piceous; thickened at base with narrow apex; continuous with frons; dorsally with fine narrow punctures, laterally above scrobe carinae with deep oval punctures from base to insertion of scape; straight to antennal insertion then slightly deflexed to apex; apex enlarged as broad as area of antennal insertion; scape inserted in basal ½; scrobe ventral, scape reaching eye. Antennal scape
1.2 mm
long; funicle
0.9 mm
long; club
0.7 mm
long; scape 1.3 longer than funicle; antennomere 1 twice as long as 2, 3 longer than 4, 4–5 same length, 6–7 same length broader than 5, antennomeres 5–7 with long, stiff, piceous bristles; club longer than antennomeres 2–7, antennomere 1 longer than 2, 1 three times as long as 7. Thorax
1.2 mm
long,
1.5 mm
wide; 0.8 as long as broad; derm piceous; base almost as broad as base of elytra, lateral margins angled in straight line to constriction; disc with indication of median carinae, mostly glabrous with median basal macula of clavate, rubiginose scales and few clavate, white scales; slightly convex in lateral view; mesoventral intercoxal process not visible in lateral view, covered with short, narrow, white scales; scutellum small, round, clothed with rubiginose scales; mesepimeron, mesepisternum, metasternum clothed with clavate, rubiginose scales. Elytra with striae narrow, deep; shallow scutellar declivity; humeri rounded; intervals broad, 1–5 with vittae of clavate, rubiginose scales, intervals 6–8 with scattered scales, 9– 10 with vittae from distal 1/3 to apex; crosshatched setae short, piceous, flat in lateral view. Metafemur with small tooth, reaching apex of elytra; pro-mesofemoral teeth very small; left proleg, left mesoleg and right metaleg present, remaining legs wanting; clothed with small, narrow, recumbent, white scales. Abdominal sternum I longer than II behind coxal cavity; sternum 2 as long as 3–4; sternum 5 longer than 3+4 with emarginated apex and lateral tufts of shout seta-like scales margining median declivity. Pygidium piceous with median transverse carinae and short piceous hair-like scales to apex.
Distribution:
Malaysia
: Borneo,
Sarawak
, Puak;
Sabah
: Trus Madi.
Differential diagnosis:
This species could be confused with
Indocurculio nigromarginalis
(Heller)
proposed new comb.
Pelsue (2009)
with fulvus scales, but
C. sellatus
has a distinctly different rubiginose scale pattern on the dorsum of the thorax and a longer rostrum.