Tylodinus ixchel 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 : 23-24

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.4914135

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/C27E87FF-FF8D-611B-FF14-DDDB20A3FDDE

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scientific name

Tylodinus ixchel Luna-Cozar
status

sp. nov.

9. Tylodinus ixchel Luna-Cozar , sp. nov.

( Figures 44–45 View FIGURES 44–51 , 105 View FIGURES 100–109 , 131 View FIGURES 130–131 )

Diagnosis. Length male, 2.4–2.7 mm, female, ca. 2.8 mm (damaged). Width male, 1.1–1.2 mm, female ca. 1.3 mm (damaged). As for T. exiguus with following exceptions: head with dark brown scales; vertex with yellow scales. Pronotum in lateral view moderately convex; surface with small punctures. Metasternum concave. Ventrite 1 concave with scattered scales, ventrite 2 with line scales interrupted medially. Hind femur length extending near to elytral apex, front tibiae with apical 1/4 curved, middle and hind tibiae parallel. Male genitalia ( Figure 105 View FIGURES 100–109 ) with median lobe in lateral view very slender; in ventral view as long as apodemes, lateral sides convex beyond 0.27 of length from the base; apical process slightly curved. Female with sternite eight sub-trapezoidal, with the membranous median area ½ as long as basal plate, ramus indistinct, nodulus slender.

Geographic distribution. México (Chiapas).

Habitat and elevation. Specimens were collected from leaf litter in high elevation cloud forest at 2000 m.

Derivation of specific name. Noun in apposition: after the word ixchel, Mayan name of the Moon goddess, also the goddess of childbirth, medicine and of rainbows.

Material examined. Total 5 males, 1 female. Holotype male ( CMNC): México: Chiapas, Unión Juárez, Volcán Tacaná, lower slopes, ca 4 km N, Unión Juárez , elev. 2000 m (15°5'47.29''N, 92°5'17.04''W), 20.ix.1992, coll. R GoogleMaps . S. Anderson. Paratypes: Same data as holotype, 4 males, 1 female ( CMNC, ECOS) 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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