Elytrurus alatus Saunders & Jekel

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 : 141-142

publication ID	978-2-85653-605-6
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/039F87B5-FFEE-4703-FF7D-FAC1FE80FEEF
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Elytrurus alatus Saunders & Jekel
status

Treatment

Elytrurus alatus Saunders & Jekel View in CoL

Fig. 31

Elytrurus alatus Saunders & Jekel, 1855: 290 View in CoL , pl. 15: 1. — Marshall 1938: 75, 90. — Paulian 1945: 196.

DESCRIPTION. — Scaling green except for a white or pinkish dot on pronotum in front of scutellum, and a dot on the basal angles of elytra. Rostrum flat or shallowly impressed, lacking sublateral smooth lines. Strial puncta pupillated with round scales. Remainder of diagnostic characters in key to species above. 11.5-18.0 mm.

TYPE MATERIAL. — Holotype male, 15.5 x 7.3 mm, ‘ Elytrurus alatus Saund. & Jekel, N. Hebrides’, NHML Identified non-type specimens with BPBM, NHML, NZAC.

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Vanuatu: Futuna. 24 specimens .

ETYMOLOGY. — The species name ‘alátus’ refers to the wing-like expansions of the elytra. This species, as all others

of the genus, is flightless.

REMARKS. — Described from ‘Novae-Hebrides’ but known only from Futuna, a small island some 80 km E of Tanna I.