A taxonomic monograph of the genus Tylodinus Champion (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Cryptorhynchinae: Tylodina) of Chiapas, Mexico
Author
Luna-Cozar, Jesús
jlcozar@yahoo.com.mx
Author
Anderson, Robert S.
jlcozar@yahoo.com.mx
Author
Jones, Robert W.
Author
León-Cortés, Jorge L.
text
Zootaxa
2014
2014-04-15
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journal article
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10.11646/zootaxa.3788.1
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34.
Tylodinus gibbosus
Luna-Cozar
,
sp. nov.
(
Figures 92–93
,
127
,
133
)
Diagnosis.
Length male
2.6 mm
. Width male
1.3 mm
. As for
T. immundus
with following exceptions: body 1.9.x longer than wide; densely clothed with whitish to gray scales. Frons moderately concave, rostrum moderately carinate, punctures shallow. Pronotum in lateral view moderately convex, outline with anterior constriction, without posterior constriction (
Figure 10
); disc somewhat hollowed, surface with small, dense punctures. Elytra strongly convex, basal margin slightly sinuate, punctures small, shallow, without granules, stria 10 incomplete, with dense patch on intervals 1–3 and intervals 1–5 at base of elytral declivity. Metasternum moderately concave. Ventrite 2 glabrous in median section. Hind femur extending beyond the apex elytral. Male genitalia (
Figure 127
) with median lobe in lateral view moderately stout; in ventral view with lateral sides straight, subparallel; apical process in lateral view almost as long as length of median lobe, slightly curved. Female unknown.
Geographic distribution.
México
(
Chiapas
).
Habitat and elevation.
The
holotype
was collected from leaf litter in cloud forest at
1750 m
.
Derivation of specific name.
Name from the Latin
gibbosus
derived from Latin word
gibbus
= hump, hunchback
Material examined.
Total
1 male
.
Holotype
male (
CMNC
):
México
:
Chiapas
,
Pueblo Nuevo Solistahuacán
,
Yerbabuena Reserve
, elev.
1750 m
(
17°11'.24''N
,
92°53'52.44''W
),
19.ix.1991
, coll.
R
.
S. Anderson.