Tylodinus pappi 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 : 50-52

30. Tylodinus pappi Luna-Cozar , sp. nov.

( Figures 84–85 , 123 , 134 )

Diagnosis. Length male, 3.3–3.4 mm. Width male, 1.6–1.7 mm. As for T. kuscheli with following exceptions: body approximately 2x longer than wide, black. Head clothed with light brown scales; vertex with yellow scales, dense to contiguous, forming patches on middle and lateral sides of vertex; frons concave. Pronotum in lateral view moderately convex; punctures dense to contiguous at base and progressively more widely spaced, smaller, shallower to apex. Elytra with tubercles as follows: I2 with weak tubercle on declivity base, I3 with two tubercles, first subbasal, other at elytral middle, I4 with two very weak tubercles, first between tubercles on I3, second slightly anterior to declivity, I5 with two tubercles similar in size and position to those on I3, I7 with only one subbasal weak tubercle. Metasternum squamous. Abdomen with ventrite 5 convex along middle line, as long as ventrite 1. Hind femur length extended beyond elytral apex, front tibiae with inner margin moderately sinuate, hind tibia slightly curved. Male genitalia ( Figure 123 ) with median lobe in ventral view as long as apodemes; apical process in lateral view very large (0.45–0.55 as long as median lobe), sinuate. Female unknown

Geographic distribution. México (Chiapas).

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

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

Material examined. Total 2 males. Holotype male ( CMNC): México: Chiapas, Unión Juárez, Volcán Tacaná, lower slopes, ca 4 km N, Unión Juárez , elev. 2000 m (15°5’47.4’’N, 92°5’17.2’’W), 19.ix.1992, coll. R . S. Anderson (92-111). Paratype: Same data as holotype, 1 male ( CMNC) .

Figures

FIGURES 84–91. Dorsal and lateral habitus: 84–85. Tylodinus pappi, 86–87. Tylodinus branstetteri, 88–89. Tylodinus immundus, 90–91. Tylodinus intzin.

FIGURES 120–129. Ventral and lateral habitus of median lobe: 120. Tylodinus dominicus, 121. Tylodinus noctis, 122. Tylodinus kuscheli, 123. Tylodinus pappi, 124. Tylodinus branstetteri, 125. Tylodinus immundus, 126. Tylodinus intzin, 127. Tylodinus gibbosus, 128. Tylodinus kissingeri, 129. Tylodinus pinguis.

FIGURES 134–135. Maps showing collecting sites. 134. Occurrences in Chiapas, México of: Tylodinus rufus, Tylodinus kuscheli, Tylodinus pappi, Tylodinus jonesi, Tylodinus coapillensis; 135. Occurrences in Chiapas, México of: Tylodinus spiniventris, Tylodinus lum, Tylodinus noctis, Tylodinus pinguis, Tylodinus rugosus.