Hellerius ignambius (Heller) Kuschel, 2008

Kuschel, Guillermo, 2008, Curculionoidea (weevils) of New Caledonia and Vanuatu: Basal families and some Curculionidae, Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle 197, pp. 99-250 : 134-135

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scientific name

Hellerius ignambius (Heller)
status

comb. nov.

Hellerius ignambius (Heller) View in CoL n. comb.

Figs 21, 22

Anomalodermus ignambius Heller, 1916: 314 View in CoL .

DESCRIPTION. — Integument black or piceous, legs usually slightly reddish; vestiture squamose, pale or dark grey, rarely with bluish tint; setae inconspicuous, appressed.

Rostrum bisulcate, sulci flanking a slightly raised median area. Scape slightly passing hind margin of eyes, claviform at apex; segment 1 of funicle as long as 2 o nearly so, segments 3-7 moniliform, not longer than wide. Elytra elongate-oval; striae 3 to 7 confused, irregular on basal half, 4 and 5 ending there well short of tubercle of interstria 3, space outside of this tubercle, between striae 3 and 6, having a small, low, densely squamose tubercle surrounded by puncta, positioned, in lateral view, just below tubercle of interstria 3; elytra in female with 0-2 subbasal tubercles on interstriae 5 and 7, a large, somewhat curved backwards tubercle on interstria 3, interstria 7 somewhat raised before declivity, and a rather prominent, elongate tubercle at junction of striae 3 and 9. Last three ventrites in female rather consricted in relation to first two, ventrite 5 weakly tapering, distinctly longer than 3 and 4 combined. Male: tergite 7 broadly truncate-subemarginate. Tegmen with long parameres. Pedon about 1.5 x longer than apodemes, weakly tapering from base to apex, before apex two-thirds as wide as at base; apex sharply pointed, not turned up; basal sclerite as long as aedeagal body plus apodemes, stiff, evenly thick,nearly as thick as apodeme of tegmen.

Female: tergite 7 rounded at apex, 8 strongly pigmented at base; spermatheca with a long duct extension, measured from gland to duct extensions as long as spermathecal hook; duct unusually thick, as thick as spermathecal stem wide, 4 x as long as spermatheca; gland long, cylindrical, inserted on a rather long extension.

Length: 7.5-11.0 mm.

TYPE MATERIAL. — Holotype female, 10.0 x 4.5 mm, ‘Ignambi, 8.VIII.1911, F Sarasin & J Roux, Typus’, SMT. D. Identified non-type specimens with ANIC, BPBM, MNHW, NZAC, QMBA, SRFP.

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — New Caledonia. Ignambi , Mandjélia (summit, 780 m). 37 specimens .

HOSTPLANTS. — Araliacaeae for all nine specimens found in Mandjélia by S. Cazères.

ETYMOLOGY. — The name ‘ignámbius’ is in reference to Ignambi, a mountain 20 km in straight line S of Pouébo, NW New Caledonia.

REMARKS. — The holotype female has no tubercles near the base of the elytra. The species is at present known only from the far NW of New Caledonia .

ANIC

Australian National Insect Collection

BPBM

Bishop Museum

NZAC

New Zealand Arthropod Collection

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Curculionidae

Genus

Hellerius

Loc

Hellerius ignambius (Heller)

Kuschel, Guillermo 2008
2008
Loc

Anomalodermus ignambius

HELLER K. M. 1916: 314
1916
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