A taxonomic monograph of the Middle American leaf-litter inhabiting weevil genus Theognete Champion (Coleoptera: Curculionidae; Molytinae; Lymantini) 2458
Author
Anderson, Robert S.
text
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2010
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89.
Theognete michaudi
Anderson
,
new species
(
Figures 289
,
299
,
308
)
Diagnosis.
Size. Length, male,
3.15–3.40mm
; female,
3.01mm
. Width, male,
1.74–1.91mm
; female,
1.69mm
. As for
T. harbini
but pronotal scales finer, elytral scales elongate, suberect, simple. Procoxae narrowly separated. Aedeagus as in
Fig. 299
.
Geographical distribution
.
México
(
México
).
Natural history
. Collected from berlese extraction of oak-pine-madrone forest leaf litter at an elevation of
2150m
.
Derivation of specific name
. Through his support of the Nature Discovery Fund at the Canadian Museum of Nature, this species is named after Stéphane Michaud of Montreal,
Quebec
,
Canada
, as a gift from Mario Lalanne.
Material examined
.
3♂
,
1♀
(
CMNC
,
CWOB
,
MCZC
)
.
Holotype
♂
(
MCZC
):
MÉXICO
: México.
7 mi.
N.E. Temascaltepec
, 7000', ix.12–15.1973 / berlese litter pine-madrone-oak forest, A.
Newton
/ HOLO- TYPE
♂
,
Theognete michaudi
sp. nov.
, R.S. Anderson. Aedeagus extracted.
Paratypes
:
MÉXICO
. México.
Temascaltepec
(
7 mi.
N.E.), 7000',
12–15.IX.1973
, A.
Newton
, berlese pine madrone oak forest litter (
2♂
,
1♀
CMNC
,
CWOB
)
.
Chorological relationships
. Not sympatric with any other species of
Theognete
.