Revision Of The Weevil Genera Magdalinops Dietz And Chelonychus Dietz (Coleoptera: Curculionidae, Anthonomini)
Author
Clark, Wayne E.
Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station Auburn University Auburn, AL 36849, U. S. A.
Author
Burke, Horace R.
Department of Entomology Texas A & M University College Station, TX 77843, U. S. A.
text
The Coleopterists Bulletin
2002
2002-03-01
56
1
107
122
journal article
10.1649/0010-065X(2002)056[0107:ROTWGM]2.0.CO;2
1938-4394
4900399
Chelonychus longipes
Dietz 1891:256
.
Figs. 25, 26
,
29, 31
,
32
Lectotype
(here designated).
United States
.
California
.
Siskiyou Co
.: [Yreka, Cal.] [W G Dietz Coll/Type 1998] (?, MCZC).
Paralectotypes
.
United States
.
California
.
Siskiyou Co
.: [Yreka, Cal.] [
Chelonychus longipes Dietz
] [Type 8159/
Chelonychus
/
longipes Dietz
] (/, MCZC);
Minnesota
.
[Min.] [W. G. Dietz Coll./Type 1998] also bearing small square red label (/, MCZC). Two specimens in the Carnegie Museum under the name
Chelonychus longipes
,
one with a ‘‘Col.’’ label, the other labeled ‘‘Cal.’’, are probably
syntypes
. Dietz did not indicate the number of specimens he had in his series, but these account for all of the localities he listed: ‘‘Yreka, Cal. (Dr. Horn);
Minnesota
,
Colorado
(H. Ulke).’’
Description.
Body (
Figs. 25–26
): oval in dorsal view; length
1.6–2.1 mm
; width 0.8– 1.0 mm. Integument black, broadly visible between scales.
Head
: vertex with narrow scales, broader, slightly imbricated scales present beneath.
Rostrum
(
Fig. 25
): evenly curved; proximal portion shallowly sulcate; long, narrow scales on extreme base replaced
THE COLEOPTERISTS BULLETIN 56(1), 2002 119
Figs. 25–28.
Chelonychus
spp.
, habitus.
25)
C. longipes
,
/, Nederland, Colorado;
26)
C. longipes
,
/, Nederland, Colorado;
27)
C. stragulus
,
/, holotype;
28)
C. stragulus
,
/, holotype.
Figs. 29–31.
Chelonychus
spp.
29)
C. longipes
,
?, metathoracic leg, Nederland, Colorado;
30)
C. stragulus
,
?, metathoracic leg, Chisos Mountains, Texas;
31)
C. longipes
,
?, right metatarsus, Nederland, Colorado.
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Figs. 32–33.
Chelonychus
spp
, aedeagus, dorsal view.
32)
C. longipes
,
?, Nederland,
Colorado;
33)
C. stragulus
,
?, Chisos Mountains, Texas.
toward antennal insertions by narrower, sparser scales; distal portion glabrous.
Antenna
: funiculus with 7 articles.
Prothorax
: pronotum with admixture of elongate, narrow, slightly curved, cinereus scales and broader, flattened, cinereous to infuscate scales.
Elytra
: rounded apically in dorsal view; striae narrow, punctures with minute, inconspicuous setae; interstriae with elongate, narrow, slightly curved, cinereous scales and slightly to distinctly broader, flattened, cinereous to infuscate scales.
Pygidium
: with slender, cinereous scales.
Abdomen
: sterna 1–4 with pallid scales laterally, with narrower scales medially; sternum 5 convex, with elongate, setiform scales medially.
Legs
: profemur with one small ventral tooth; protibia with inner margin prominent in basal 2/3, concave in apical 1/3; protibial uncus long, slender, slightly curved, acute; metatibia with inner margin slightly prominent in basal 2/3, slightly concave in apical 1/3, outer margin straight (
Fig. 29
); metatibial mucro straight, oblique in lateral view, acute (
Fig. 29
); tarsal claw with acute basal tooth (
Fig. 31
).
Male Genitalia
(
Fig. 32
): median lobe of aedeagus narrowed to bluntly rounded apex in dorsal view, broadly, evenly curved in lateral view; endophallus minutely denticulate.
Specimens Examined.
In addition to the
lectotype
from California,
45 specimens
of
C. longipes
from the following localities were examined.
Canada
.
Alberta
.
Carway (2, TAMU); Calgary (1, CMNC); McMurray (1, TAMU);
25 mi.
E WritingonStone Provincial Park (2, CMNC).
British Columbia
.
15 km
. E Hudson Hope (1, CMNC).
Saskatchewan
.
2 mi.
N Burstall dunes (1, CMNC); Saskatchewan Landing (1, TAMU);
23 km
. E Weyburn (1, CMNC; 2, CWOB).
United States
.
Colorado
.
Boulder Co.
:
1 mi.
N Allenspark (1, CWOB);
Nederland
(1, CWOB; 1, TAMU);
1 mi.
N
Nederland
(3, CWOB).
Gilpen Co.
:
6 mi.
SE Black Hawk (1, TAMU).
Larimer Co.
:
5 mi.
W Estes Park (1, CWOB);
37 mi.
W Fort Collins (1, CWOB).
Las Animas Co.
:
8 mi.
N Stonewall (8,900
9
, 3, CWOB).
Pasco Co.
:
15 mi.
N Colorado Springs (6,900
9
, 2, CWOB).
Rocky Mountain National Park.
Moraine Park (9, TAMU).
Kansas
.
Pratt Co.
: (‘‘
Artemesia ludoviciana
,
’’ 1, TAMU).
Minnesota
.
Anoka Co.
: Cedar Creek Natural History Area (‘‘
Artemesia ludoviciana
,
’’ 3, TAMU).
Missouri
.
Holt Co.
: Big Lake State Park (2, CWOB).
Montana
.
Silver Bow Co.
:
5 mi.
N Nissler (2, AUEM).
Nebraska
.
Lake Maloney (1, TAMU).
Oregon
.
Jackson Co.
: Ashland (3, CASC); Talent (1, OSUO).
Plant Associations.
Label data indicate that adults of
C. longipes
have been collected on
Artemesia ludoviciana
Nutt. (Asteraceae)
.
Remarks.
Specimens of
C. longipes
from McMurray,
Alberta
, are distinctly larger and more densely squamose than the
types
and have a smaller tooth on the profemur.