A revision of the weevil genus Procas Stephens (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea: Erirhinidae) Author Thompson, Richard T. text Zootaxa 2006 2006-06-15 1234 1 1 63 https://biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.1234.1.1 journal article 10.11646/zootaxa.1234.1.1 1175­5334 5065222 8D608A41-09CD-4626-935E-26BF20AB7587 Procas picipes levantinus subsp. n. ( Fig. 1 ) [?] Procas armillatus (Fabricius) : Bodenheimer 1937: 153 . [Misidentification]. Procas alepensis auctt. (non Pic). Description Length 4.2–5.9 mm , mean (12) = 5.1. Head with rostrum (both sexes) × 4.2–4.7 as long as broad, mean (12) = 4.4. Antennae with lengths of funicle segments 1–3 in ratio 10: (7.2–9.5): (4.5–6.3), mean (13) = 10: 7.9: 5.9; segment 2 × 1.2–1.7 as long as 3, mean (13) = 1.35. Prothorax (male) × 0.83–0.86 as long as broad, mean (4) = 0.84; prothorax (female) × 0.81–0.88 as long as broad, mean (8) = 0.84. Legs with middle and hind tibiae with dense pale setae throughout or with, at most, a small dark zone on dorsal edge, near base; basal circlet of white setae usually absent. Vestiture coarser than in P. p. picipes ; elytra with many prominent white setae ( Fig. 2 ). Terminalia. Male sternite 8, fig. 82; female sternite 8, figs 24, 25; spermatheca, figs 49, 50. Type material HOLOTYPE , female, JORDAN : Amman , 800 m , 22.iii.1957 ( J. Klapperich ), with ‘ Procas spec. Dieckmann det. 1987’ in BGO. The specimen is 4.9 mm long, carded and undissected; some of its tarsi are imperfect . PARATYPES : 1 female , same data as holotype ( BGO ) ; 1 ex. Amman , 12.iv.1935 ( W. Wittmer )( MCSN ) . ISRAEL / PALESTINE : 1 ex. with ‘ Palaestina / Reitter’ (printed), C 12892 and ‘ Procas armillatus’ (unknown hand)( TAU ) ; 8 ex. Jerusalem , 12.iii.1933 ( Schatzmayr ), (5 MCSN, 2 NMB , 1 BMNH ) ; 3 ex. ditto, except 13.ii.1933 , Oliveto (2 NMB , 1 MCSN ) ; 1 female , Jerusalem , iii.1933 ( M. Aigner )( NMB ) ; 1 female , Jerusalem , ii.1935 ( F. S. Bodenheimer )( BMNH ) ; 1 ex. Ben Schemen , 14.i.[19]26 ( MZPW ) ; 1 male , Mt Carmel , iii.1933 (M. Aigner )( ZMB ) . CYPRUS : 1 female , Limassol , 12.v.1920 ( G.A. Mavromoustakis ) ; 1 female , ditto, except 6.x.1923 (both BMNH ) ; 1 female , no locality ( Madon )( IRSN ) . TURKEY : 1 ex. with ‘40188’ (A. Fry MS ) , Turcomenia , Kurdistan [pre­1872]( Millingen ), A. Fry Collection , B.M. 1905­100 ( BMNH ) . Total : 23 specimens . Comments This subspecies is named after the region it mainly inhabits. It is strange that it should have been confused with ‘P.’ alepensis , since Pic’s description indicates a species with “... larges squamules denses qui garnissent le dessus de son corps.” Records of P. alepensis Pic in Korotyaev 1991 refer to Notodermus sp. (specimens examined).