The genus Sicoderus Vanin 1986 (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Curculioninae: Erodiscini) in the West Indies Author Anderson, Robert S. text Zootaxa 2018 2018-10-10 4497 3 301 345 journal article 29174 10.11646/zootaxa.4497.3.1 55770274-cac7-4dde-871a-6c4cf42522c5 1175-5326 1454868 FED8ED2E-510F-4596-A31B-59E6DF73919C Sicoderus propinquus Vanin (Map 10) Sicoderus propinquus Vanin 1986 : 586 . Holotype male (BMNH, lost) from Mustique Island, Grenadines, not examined. Anderson 1999 : 135 . Description: Length 3.5–5.9 mm (both sexes pooled). Integument black, shining. Eyes separated by a distance about width of 3 ommatidia. Rostrum 1.12–1.23x length elytra in male; 1.3 2–1.38x length elytra in female. Antennal insertion at about apical two-fifths in male, slightly before middle in female. Prothorax constricted anteriorly, globose, widest at about middle; punctures sparse, small, elongate on disc, larger and deeper, forming striolae laterally on flanks; no setae present. Elytra in dorsal view widest at midlength, lateral margins convergent both anteriorly and posteriorly; humeri fully reduced, not at all angulate; no setae present. Strial punctures evident, small, shallow; striae not impressed. Membranous wings absent. Abdominal ventrite 1 of male slightly impressed at middle, with two moderately separated rounded tubercles near posterior margin of depression, each tubercle with small patch of fine setosity at tip; of female, uniformly convex in middle near posterior margin. Ventrite 5 with impression in apical one-half, convex in female. Legs with front femora with ventral margin with small tooth, middle and hind femora each with very small blunt tooth; tarsal claws lacking small basal tooth. Aedeagus not available for study. Female not available for study (specimens in BMNH lost). Material examined: None. Comments: Vanin (1986) described this species from a number of specimens from Mustique Island, Grenadines , and from Grenada . According to staff at the Natural History Museum in London, all specimens ( holotype and nine paratypes ) from their collection were lost in return transit following description and study by Vanin. The description of the species presented here is modified from Vanin (1986) .