Bordoniola Osella, 1987

Baviera, Cosimo, Bellò, Cesare & Osella, Giuseppe, 2012, First record of the genus Bordoniola Osella, 1987 in Ecuador with description of five new species (Coleoptera: Curculionidae, Raymondionyminae), Zootaxa 3455, pp. 69-80 : 70

Bordoniola Osella, 1987

Bordoniola Osella, 1987: 201 , 204; Howden, 1992: 4 –10; Alonso Zarazaga & Lyal, 1999: 72; Morrone et al., 2001: 381, 382; Grebennikov, 2010: 346 –349.

The genus Bordoniola was established ( Osella, 1987) for two Venezuelan species collected by Vasile Decu of the Academy of Sciences of Bucharest in the Andean forests: B. decui Osella, 1987 from Parque Nacional Rancho Grande ( Fig. 1 ), and B. minutissima Osella, 1987 from Trujillo-Bocono ( Figs 2, 2 A). This genus is characterized by: size 1.06–1.65 mm; protibia externally granulate or granulate-toothed; rostrum between the head and antennae smooth and shiny or slightly punctuate-striate; scrobes fused together back under the rostrum, pronotum subcylindrical, 1.6–2.1 times longer than wide, variously punctuate; second and third elytral intervals more or less raised, the remaining intervals flat, more or less shining, first and second elytral striae with round punctures on the disc, evanescent towards the declivity; procoxae raised, separated at the base; sternites III–IV wide (III larger than IV). Aedeagus short and broad.

Type species: Bordoniola minutissima Osella, 1987 ( Venezuela) .

Figures

FIGURES 1 – 4. 1 — B. decui Osella, 1987 paratype ♂ from Parque Nacional Rancho Grande, Venezuela—Habitus; 2 — B. minutissima Osella, 1987 paratype ♂ from Trujillo, Bocono, Venezuela—Habitus, 2 A—Aedeagus; 3 — B. ecuadorialis sp. n. holotype ♂ from Ecuador, Pichincha, San Josè de Minas—Habitus, 3 A—Aedeagus; 4 — B. ecuadorialis sp. n. paratype Ƥ from Ecuador, Pichincha, San Josè de Minas—Habitus, 4 A—Spermatheca.