A Review Of The Genus Curculio From China With Descriptions Of New Taxa. Part III. The Curculio subfenestratus Voss Group (Curculionidae: Curculioninae: Curculionini) Author Pelsue, Frank W. Author Zhang, Runzhi text The Coleopterists Bulletin 2002 2002-03-31 56 1 1 39 http://dx.doi.org/10.1649/0010-065x(2002)056[0001:arotgc]2.0.co;2 journal article 10.1649/0010-065X(2002)056[0001:AROTGC]2.0.CO;2 1938-4394 10102918 Curculio tarae Pelsue and Zhang , new species Figs. 55–56 , 107–110 HOLOTYPE . China . Xiangcheng : male [ China / Sichuan /Xiangcheng/ 2,900–4,000 m / 02 July 1982 / S. Wang ] ( IZAS ). PARATYPES (13). China . Xiangcheng : five males [ China / Sichuan /Xiangcheng/2,900– 4,000 m / 02 July 1982 / S. Wang ]; two males [ China / Yunnan / Xiaozhongdian / 3,200 m / 06 July 1983 / S. Wang ]; one male [ China / Yunnan / Zhongdian / 3,150 m / 02 August 1981 / S. Wang ]; one male [ China / Sichuan / Maerkang / 3,230 m / 03 June 1961 / S. Lu ]; one female [ China / Sichuan / Xiangcheng / 3,800–4,000 m / 02 July 1982 / S. Wang ] ( FWPC ); one male [ China / Yunnan / 360 m road Degen­Yanjing / 10 km W Degen /28″28′N, 98″53′E,/21–22 June 1997/Turna] (CWOB); one female [China/Yunnan/360 m road Degen­Yanjing/10 km W Degen/28″28′N, 98″53′E/21–22 June 1997/Turna] (CWOB); one male [Yunnan/ Heishioi / 35 km N Lijiang / 27,13N ; 100, 19E 18.6/ 07 April 1993 /Becvar] ( CWOB ) . Figs. 107­110. Curculio tarae n. sp. 107) median lobe, dorsal aspect; 108) median lobe, lateral aspect; 109) median lobe, apex; 110) spermatheca, lateral aspect. Figs. 111­ 113 Curculio fordi n. sp. 111) median lobe, dorsal aspect; 112) median lobe, lateral aspect; 113) median lobe, apex. Figs. 114­116. Curculio congerae n. sp. 114) median lobe, dorsal aspect; 115) median lobe, lateral aspect; 116) median lobe, apex. Various scales. Description. Male: length: 4.7–5.2 mm (mean = 4.7 mm , n = 12). width: 2.4–2.7 mm (mean = 2.2 mm , n = 12). Head: medium­sized; punctures small clothed with short, narrow, elongate, dirty white scales; ventromedial macula of ochraceous scales; frons, 0.22 as broad as head across eyes, clothed with longer, narrow, elongate, ochroleucus scales; interocular fovea present. Rostrum: length: 2.4–2.7 mm (mean = 2.53 mm , n = 12); 0.57 as long as body, sub­cylindrical; 3 dorsal carinae; vestiture of narrow, elongate, dirty white scales to midway between frons and insertion of antennae; straight to antennal insertion then gradually arced to apex; scrobe ventral; scape inserted in apical half. Antennae: length: scape 1.0 mm, funiculus: segment one 0.35 mm , two 0.3 mm , three 0.175 mm , four 0.175 mm , five 0.175 mm , six 0.15 mm , seven 0.15 mm , club 0.6 mm , funicle 1.4 mm (n = 1); scape 0.86 as long as funicle; funicle clothed with narrow, elongate, dirty white scales; club elongate, compact, acuminate, as long as segments 4– 7. Thorax: length: 1.3–1.5 mm (mean = 1.24 mm , n = 12). width: 1.7–2.0 mm (mean = 1.84 mm , n = 12); 0.75 as long as broad; disc margins broad then rounded to constriction; punctures small densely clothed with narrow, elongate, testaceous, and few dirty white scales, flat in lateral view, with feeble median longitudinal carina; base sinuate; mesosternal intercoxal process prominent clothed with dirty white scales; scutellum large, longer than broad, clothed with ochroleucus, with few fuscous scales; mesepimeron clothed with clavate, ochroleucus scales; mesepisternum clothed with clavate, ochroleucus, with a few fuscous scales; metepisternum clothed with narrow, elongate, dirty white scales; ventral macula of narrow, clavate, ochroleucus scales. Elytra: length: 2.9–3.2 mm (mean = 3.03 mm , n = 12); striae deep with small punctures and short, narrow, fuscous scales; disc flat in lateral view; humeri prominent, rounded; intervals broad, densely clothed with narrow, elongate, cinerous scales, with scattered patches of dirty white scales. Legs: length of hind femur 2.1–2.2 mm (mean = 2.16 mm , n = 12), tooth large, wedge shaped; pro­ and mesofemoral teeth medium; femoral clava medium­sized; all femora, with derm of base piceous, clava fuscorufous and apex piceous; vestiture of narrow, elongate, dirty white scales; tibiae subsinuate, pro­, mesouncus large, metauncus small. Abdomen: sternite 1 longer than 2 behind coxal cavity, shallow median declivity; sternite 2 ascending to 3; sternite 3 longer than 4, combined longer than 5; sternite 5 truncate, with lateral tufts of seta­like scales on apex with median declivity; sternite 2 with lateral macula of narrow, elongate, ochroleucus scales, remaining scales of all sternites narrow, elongate, dirty white. Pygidium : large, with dense tuft of fuscous seta­like scales. Genitalia: median lobe of aedeagus 1.1 mm (n = 1) in length; 0.3 mm (n = 1) in width broad, with thin margins, deflected slightly to squared off apex, in dorsal view, evenly thick with gradual deflection to abruptly deflected apex, in lateral view; apex broadly rounded to truncate point with median ridges; apodeme 1.2 mm (n = 1) in length ( Figs. 107–109 ). Female: length: 4.5 mm (n = 2). width: 2.3 mm (n = 2). Rostrum: length: 3.0 mm (n = 2), 0.66 as long as body. Frons: 0.26 as broad as head across eyes. Antennae: length: scape 0.9 mm , funiculus: segment one 0.35 mm , two 0.3 mm , three 0.175 mm , four 0.175, five 0.15 mm , six 0.15 mm , seven 0.15 mm , club 0.5 mm , funicle 1.3 mm (n = 1); scape 0.69 as long as funicle. Thorax: length: 1.4 mm (n = 2). width: 1.8 mm (n = 2); 0.78 as long as broad. Elytra: length: 2.8 mm (n = 2). Legs: length of hind femur 2.0 mm (n = 2). Pygidium : small. Genitalia: spermatheca ‘‘C’’ shaped with ramus oblique, united with collum; cornu base broad, tapering to turned up rounded apex (n = 1) ( Fig. 110 ). Remarks. This species closely resembles C. challeti n. sp. , but male can be separated by abdominal sternite 1 shorter than 2 behind coxal cavity and genitalia; female rostrum shorter, and spermatheca. Etymology. Named in honor of the senior author’s granddaughter Tara Ashley Pelsue.