Haptomerus mashunus Marshall, 1908

Borovec, Roman & Nakládal, Oto, 2019, Haptomerus maculosus, a new species of the tribe Myorhinini from Zambia (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Entiminae), Zootaxa 4563 (2), pp. 387-395 : 393

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4563.2.11
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6490144
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scientific name	Haptomerus mashunus Marshall, 1908
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Haptomerus mashunus Marshall, 1908 View in CoL

Haptomerus mashunus Marshall, 1908: 24 View in CoL . Schenkling & Marshall 1931: 5.

Haptomerus mashuanus (lapsus): Osella et al. 1998: 231.

Material examined. 2 specimens ( BMNH) : 1 ♂ 1 ♀, Type [p, rounded with red margin] / Salisbury , Mashonaland, Jan. 1906, G. A. K. Marshall, 1909-39. [hw] / Haptomerus mashunus, Mshl . TYPE ♂ [hw, Marshall´s handwriting, ♀ in second specimen]. 1 spec., Mashonaland [ Zimbabwe], Salisbury, G. A. K. Marshall ( BMNH) ; 2 spec., Mashonaland [ Zimbabwe], Salisbury , March 1906, G. A. K. Marshall ( BMNH) ; 90 spec., Nyasaland [ Malawi], Plateau on Mlanji Mt. , 6,000-7,000 ft. [1 830-2 130 m], 1-2 May 1910, S. A. Neave [lgt.] ( BMNH) ; 1 ♀, Malawi, Dedza, 19.-22.iii.2000, B. Malec lgt. ( BMSC) .

Remarks. Specimens from the Mlanje Plateau of Malawi have a smoother, shinier and less distinctly punctate pronotum and elytra, but in all other characters they agree with the type specimens from Salisbury. The species is here newly recorded for Malawi.