A taxonomic monograph of the Middle American leaf-litter inhabiting weevil genus Theognete Champion (Coleoptera: Curculionidae; Molytinae; Lymantini) 2458
Author
Anderson, Robert S.
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73.
Theognete lalibertei
Anderson
,
new species
(
Figures 247
,
264
,
281
)
Diagnosis.
Size. Length, male,
3.77–4.16mm
; female,
3.77–4.55mm
. Width, male,
2.14–2.42mm
; female,
2.25–2.75mm
. As for
T. terrestris
but scales of elytra clumped into tufts in anteroloteral area. Aedeagus as in
Fig. 264
.
Geographical distribution
.
México
(
Oaxaca
).
Natural history
. Collected from berlese extraction of cloud forest and oak forest leaf litter at elevations from
2125–2925m
.
Derivation of specific name
. Through their support of the Nature Discovery Fund at the Canadian Museum of Nature, this species is named in memory of Claude Laliberté of Montreal,
Quebec
,
Canada
, as a gift from Mario and Hortense Lalanne.
Material examined
.
6♂
,
8♀♀
(
CMNC
,
CNCI
,
CWOB
,
ECOS
,
MCZC
,
MZLU
)
.
Holotype
♂
(
CMNC
)
:
MÉXICO
:
Oaxaca
.
47.5 km
. S.
W
.
Valle Nacional, KM
100.5,
2125m
,
26.VII.1992
, 92-032,
R.S. Anderson
, wet oak forest leaf litter berlese
/
HOLOTYPE
♂
,
Theognete lalibertei
sp. nov.
,
R.S. Anderson. Aedeagus
extracted.
Paratypes
:
MÉXICO
.
Oaxaca
.
Ixtlán de Juárez
(
27.3 mi.
N.), 9200',
10–18.VIII.1973
, A.
Newton
, berlese oak forest litter (
2♂
,
2♀♀
CWOB
,
MCZC
)
.
Valle Nacional
(
37 mi.
S.), 8500',
24.V.1971
, S.
Peck
, oak litter, BER206 (
3♀♀
CMNC
,
CNCI
)
.
Valle Nacional
(
37 mi
S.
Hwy
105), 9600',
28.V.1983
,
C. & L. O'Brien
& G.B.
Marshall
, berlese sifted oak cloud forest litter (
1♀
CWOB
)
.
Valle Nacional
(
47.5 km
. S.
W
.)
,
2125m
,
26.VII.1992
, R.
Anderson
, wet oak forest leaf litter berlese (
3♂
,
2♀♀
CMNC
,
ECOS
)
.
Valle Nacional
(
40 km
. S.),
2000m
,
17.IX.1990
, R.
Baranowski
, sifting litter cloud forest (
1♂
MZLU
)
.
Valle Nacional
(
57 km
. S.),
2600m
,
29.IX.1990
, R.
Baranowski
, sifting litter wet mixed pine forest (
1♂
;
MZLU
)
.
Chorological relationships
. Sympatric with
T. terrestris
,
T. weiri
,
T. semiopaca
,
T. bothynometopon
,
T. globosa
and
T. fossor
.