Sicoderus sleeperi Vanin

Anderson, Robert S., 2018, The genus Sicoderus Vanin 1986 (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Curculioninae: Erodiscini) in the West Indies, Zootaxa 4497 (3), pp. 301-345 : 331-332

Sicoderus sleeperi Vanin

( Figures 67–68 , 72 . Map 1)

Sicoderus sleeperi Vanin 1986: 598 . Holotype male (USNM) from Cayamas, Cuba, examined.

Anderson 1999: 135.

Description: Length male, 2.8–4.2 mm; length female 3.0– 3.8 mm. Integument black, shining. Eyes separated by a distance of about one-half width rostrum at midlength. Rostrum 0.86–0.95x length elytra in male; 0.85–0.95x length elytra in female. Antennal insertion slightly beyond middle in male, at about middle in female. Prothorax constricted anteriorly, globose, widest at about middle; punctures regularly spaced, small and shallow, widely separated on disc but slightly larger, deeper on flanks but not forming striolae; erect setae absent. Elytra in dorsal view widest at just behind midlength, lateral margins very slightly convergent or subparallel anteriorly and posteriorly; humeri present, angulate; scattered setae present. Strial punctures moderately large, deep; striae not to very slightly impressed throughout length. Membranous wings present. Abdominal ventrite 1 of male slightly raised in middle near posterior margin to small tubercle with small transverse patch of setosity at tip, of female, even rounded. Ventrite 5 of male flattened medially towards apex, of female uniformly convex, not setose. Legs with front femora with inner margin with well-developed small acute tooth, middle and hind femora each with very small, blunt tooth; tarsal claws with small basal tooth. Aedeagus (fig. 72) widest towards apex, internal sac with basal sclerite complex of a single curved elongate sclerite and other amorphous sclerites. Female not dissected.

Material examined: CUBA: Province Cienfuegos, Soledad , iv.1936, P.J . Darlington Jr. (1 male, MCZC) . Province Pinar del Rio, San Vicenté, 9.VII.1940, J.C. Bradley (1 male; CMNC) . Aspiro-Rangel , 16.VI.1959, M.W. Sanderson, C59-28 (1 male; CMNC: 1 male, 1 female; CWOB) . Province Guantanamo, El Yunque , 360m, 20.34501, -74.56642, IV.2012 CarBio Team, CU-15 (1 male; CMNC) . Province Artemisia, Bacunayagua , V. 1993, J.A. Genaro (2 males; USNM) . Province Santiago de Cuba, Florida Blanca, nr. Alto Songo , 23–24.V.1959, M.W.

Sanderson (1 male; CWOB) . The type series from Cuba: Cayamas (holotype, 2 paratype males, 4 paratype females; USNM) was also examined.

Comments: This is the only known Sicoderus species from Cuba in which the humeri are angulate.

Figures

FIGURES 65–68. Species of Sicoderus. 65. Sicoderus schoenherri, dorsal habitus. 66. Sicoderus schoenherri, lateral habitus. 67. Sicoderus sleeperi, dorsal habitus. 68. Sicoderus sleeperi, lateral habitus.

FIGURES 69–72. Species of Sicoderus. 69. Sicoderus ramosi, aedeagus, dorsal view. 70. Sicoderus remotus, aedeagus, dorsal view. 71. Sicoderus schoenherri, aedeagus, dorsal view. 72. Sicoderus sleeperi, aedeagus, dorsal view.