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
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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
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Curculio misellus
(Heller)
Figs. 1–2
,
69–71
Balaninus misellus
Heller 1927: 187
Type.
India
:
Sikkim
,
Holotype
male (
SMTD
).
Figs. 49–50.
Curculio gangkuensis
n. sp.
Male, habitus dorsal and lateral views, holotype.
Figs. 51–52.
Curculio obrieni
n. sp.
Male, habitus dorsal and lateral views, holotype.
Figs. 53–54.
Curculio brittanyae
n. sp.
Male, habitus dorsal and lateral views, holotype. Various scales.
Diagnosis.
Oval;
2.75 mm
(n = 1) in length;
1.55 mm
in width (n = 1); thorasic disc with broad, to narrow, clavate, white and testaceous scales, with lateral macula of testaceous scales; elytra with confused vitta of narrow, clavate, white scales; disc of thorax and elytra flat in lateral view; scutellum longer than broad, large, clothed with cretaceous scales; elytra with crosshatched setae suberect, long, white anteriorly and testaceous apically; all femora unarmed.
Genitalia:
median lobe of aedeagus
0.5 mm
(n = 1) in length, width
0.11 mm
(n = 1), margins evenly rounded to apex dorsally, thin laterally, to sharply deflected, narrowly, acute apex; apodeme
0.4 mm
(n = 1) in length (
Figs. 69–71
).
Distribution.
India
:
Sikkim
;
China
:
Xizang Province
, Jilong,
2,800 m
.
Remarks.
Similar to
C. aino
in size and coloration, but distinguished by unarmed femora, and male genitalia of
C. aino
being deflected toward apex, with
C. misellus
flat in lateral view.