The Apionidae (Coleoptera) of the Canary Islands, with particular reference to the contribution of T. Vernon Wollaston
Author
Morris, Michael G.
Author
Sw, London
Author
Dt, Dorset
text
Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae
2011
2011-06-30
51
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journal article
10.5281/zenodo.5327310
0374-1036
5327310
Ischnopterapion
(
Ischnopterapion
)
sp.
(
Fig. 14
)
A species found abundantly in the Pinar de Chio region of Tenerife in
June 1999
was thought to be
I. plumbeomicans
. However, M. A. Alonso-Zarazaga (in litt.) has pointed out that this identification is unlikely, as that species is monophagous on
Lotus creticus
. The weevils were shaken from moribund plants of a species of
Lotus
identified as
L. campylocladus
, and occurred with smaller numbers of
Tychius colonnellii
Caldara, 1991
(=
T. filirostris
Wollaston, 1854
) (
Curculionidae
). W. Suppantschitsch (in litt.) has also taken this species and suggested that, as specimens differ somewhat from typical
I. plumbeomicans
, it may represent an undescribed species; further study is indicated. The same species also occurred in abundance on
Lotus spartioides
at Cortijo de la Tirma, Gran Canaria, in
January 2004
and less abundantly at on
Lotus
sp.
at Epina, La Gomera,
27–29 April 2008
(current author’s records).