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 conjugalis
(Faust)
Figs. 7–8
Balaninus conjugalis
Faust 1882:278
.
Type.
Amur
:
Holotype
male (
SMTD
).
Diagnosis.
Elongate, oval;
6.6–7.3 mm
(mean = 6.95, n = 7) in length;
3.3–3.8 mm
(mean = 3.55, n = 7) in width; derm fuscous; rostrum almost straight from base to antennal insertion, then abruptly arced to apex; distance from base of eye to antennal insertion
1.8 mm
in male,
1.5 mm
in female; pronotal disc with feeble indication of median lighter color vitta, with two lateral vittae; elytra, with confused fascia of fuscous scales on background of light brown scales; femora with ventral beard of elongate setalike scales, as long as tooth; metauncus medium with acute apex.
Genitalia:
Diagram of male aedeagus can be found in
Morimoto (1962)
.
Plant Associations.
Fagaceae
Morimoto (1960)
.
Distribution.
Amur (river boundry between formerly Manchuria now
China
and
Russia
);
Japan
;
Korea
;
China
, Kiautschaun (not found on recent maps of
China
, but labeled in Faust collection as collected in 1915, collector unknown);
Russia
,
Maritime
territories (TerMinassian 1956).
Remarks.
This species closely resembles
Curculio beverlyae
Pelsue and Zhang (2000
a
)
. Can be separated from that species by aedeagus, ventral beard on profemur, mediumsized acute metauncus and distance from base of male eye to antennal insertion of
1.8 mm
compared with
1.5 mm
in
C. beverlyae
.