Curculionoidea (weevils) of New Caledonia and Vanuatu: Basal families and some Curculionidae
Author
Kuschel, Guillermo
John T. Huber
text
Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle
2008
197
99
250
journal article
978-2-85653-605-6
1243-4442
Elytrurus marginatus
Saunders & Jekel
Fig. 33
Elytrurus marginatus
Saunders & Jekel, 1855: 291
, pl. 15: 2. —
Marshall 1938: 74
, 86. — Paulian 1945: 196, fig. 54.
DESCRIPTION. — Characterised by a bare prementum, rostrum with a median carina but no sublateral carinae, a transversely convex dorsal surface of rostrum, elytral processes arising from apical margin or slightly above, and an indistinct or extremely narrow bevel between outer combs of hind tibiae. 8.5-12.0 mm.
TYPE MATERIAL
. —
4 syntypes
present.
Lectotype
female, 14.2 x
6.6 mm
, ‘
New Hebrides
,
Elytrurus marginatus
Saunders & Jekel
,
Bowring’
,
NHML
.
Paralectotypes
with
MNHN
,
NHML
.
Identified
non-type specimens with
BPBM
,
IRSN
,
MNHN
,
NHML
,
NZAC
.
MATERIAL EXAMINED
. —
Vanuatu
.
Erromango
,
Tanna
, Aneityum.
36 specimens
.
REMARKS. — One specimen in the Coll. Castelnau/Roelofs of
Brussels
(IRSN) bears a label reading ‘N. Caled.’ I should think that it was an error of labelling.