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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86.
Theognete minuta
Anderson
,
new species
(
Figures 296
,
305
,
314
)
Diagnosis.
Size. Length, male,
2.30–2.56mm
; female,
2.59–2.98mm
. Width, male,
1.24–1.35mm
; female,
1.35–1.69mm
. As for
T. hesmos
but smaller, pronotum not as distinctly cordate and with no trace of median ridge; scales very fine and hair-like. Ventrite 5 with punctures fine and separate. Aedeagus as in
Fig. 305
.
Geographical distribution
.
México
(
Hidalgo
).
Natural history
. Collected from berlese extraction of cloud forest leaf litter at elevations from
1375– 1525m
.
Derivation of specific name
. Named from the Latin
minutus
, meaning small, in reference to this being the smallest of all known
Theognete
species.
Material examined
.
29♂
,
11♀♀
(
CMNC
,
CWOB
,
ECOS
)
.
Holotype
♂
(
CMNC
)
:
MÉXICO
:
Hidalgo
.
2.4 mi.
N.E. Tlanchinol
, 4500', 14.VI.83,
S. & J. Peck
, cloud for. litter
/
HOLOTYPE
♂
,
Theognete minuta
sp. nov.
,
R.S. Anderson. Aedeagus
extracted.
Paratypes
:
MÉXICO
.
Hidalgo
.
Tlanchinol
(
2.7 mi.
N.
Hwy
105), 5000',
15.VI.1983
,
L. O'Brien
&
G.B. Marshall
, berlese sifted cloud forest litter (
1♂
CWOB
)
.
17.VI.1983
, L.
O'Brien
& G.B.
Marshall
, berlese sifted cloud forest litter (
21♂
,
10♀♀
CMNC
,
CWOB
,
ECOS
)
.
Tlanchinol
(
2.4 mi.
N.E.), 4500',
14.VI.1983
,
S. & J. Peck
, cloud forest litter (
3♂
CMNC
)
.
Tlanchinol
(
43 km
S.
W
.
Huejutla
),
1490m
,
1.VIII.1983
, S. & J.
Peck
, cloud forest litter (
3♂
,
1♀
CMNC
)
.
Chorological relationships
. Sympatric with
T. hesmos
,
T. harbini
,
T. gracilis
and
T. caviventris
.