Tylodinus buchanani Luna-Cozar, 2014

Luna-Cozar, Jesús, Anderson, Robert S., Jones, Robert W. & León-Cortés, Jorge L., 2014, A taxonomic monograph of the genus Tylodinus Champion (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Cryptorhynchinae: Tylodina) of Chiapas, Mexico, Zootaxa 3788 (1), pp. 1-63 : 23

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3788.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:7484832A-025B-41FA-9696-DF7531C01AA4

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4914129

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/C27E87FF-FF8D-611A-FF14-DBAA2546FC65

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scientific name

Tylodinus buchanani Luna-Cozar
status

sp. nov.

7. Tylodinus buchanani Luna-Cozar , sp. nov.

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Diagnosis. Length female, 3.7 mm. Width female, 1.9 mm. Head clothed with yellow scales; vertex with dense to contiguous scales, mostly white with yellow scales intermixed, yellow coloration dominant toward lateral side, uniformly distributed along on vertex; frons concave; rostrum with the apical area punctuate. Pronotum in lateral view strongly convex, disc clothed with yellow and dark brown scales, surface with small punctures. Elytra with basal margin slightly sinuate; tubercles distribution as follows: tubercle on I 2 in front of declivity, I3 with two tubercles: the first tubercle subbasal and second tubercle on middle of elytra, I4 with two tubercles: the first very small, positioned between tubercles on I3, and the second tubercle at declivity as long as tubercle on I2, I5 with two tubercles similar in shape and size as tubercles on I3, I6 with a very small tubercle in front of declivity, I7 with two small tubercles at same position as tubercles on I5; surface granulate, stria 10 incomplete. Metasternum moderately concave; metasternal tooth present. Male unknown. Female abdomen with ventrite 2 squamous. Femora length almost reaching elytral ápex, tibiae subparallel, slightly sinuate. Genitalia with apex of tergite eight invaginate, sternite eight missing, spermatheca shallowly convex, ramus and nodulus indistinct.

Geographic distribution. México (Chiapas).

Habitat and elevation. The holotype was collected from leaf litter in high elevation cloud forest at 1950 m.

Derivation of specific name. Patronym, named after L. L. Buchanan ( U.S.A.), a well-known worker on weevils.

Material examined. Total 1 female. Holotype female ( CMNC): México: Chiapas, Unión Juárez, Volcán Tacaná , lower slopes, ca 4 km N, Unión Juarez , elev. 1950 m (15°5'47.29''N, 92°5'17.04''W), 18.ix.1992, coll. R. S. Anderson (92–109). GoogleMaps

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Departamento de Geologia, Universidad de Chile

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Curculionidae

Genus

Tylodinus

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