Anomalodermus proclivis, 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 : 149

Anomalodermus proclivis n. sp.

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DESCRIPTION. — Black; vestiture brownish, consisting of small piliform or lanceolate, dull or metallic scales, the body prone to get caked with a tight crust of dirt.

Rostrum, in front of frontal fovea, gibbous, with a blunt transverse ridge between antennal insertions and a fovea on either side behind the ridge. Scape robust, distinctly thicker than funicle; first two antennites of funicle equal in length, 3-7 moniliform. Prothorax broadening in straight line towards a lateral tubercle on anterior 1/3, truncate at base, right-angled at basal corners, with a flattened, half-ring-shaped lower edge at base behind discal elevations with three more or less coalescent tubercles on apical 2/5 of dorsal surface on either side of midline, with its third tubercle diverted to the side, remainder of disk nodulose and foveate, each nodule topped with a strong curved seta, bottom of foveae dull, alutaceous. Elytra, in dorsal view, very wide, as wide as long, with three tubercles protruding over the side line, strongly convex, each with eight tubercles on odd interstriae, a large, proclinate tubercle on base of interstria 3 followed by two others, these roughly parallel with suture; interstria 5 with three tubercles, the first on basal 1/4 of elytra, more or less joined via a low ridge with the large one on 3, the second tubercle small, deflected dorsad, the third large, rectangular; interstria 7 with a small tubercle before middle; interstria 9 with a tubercle just behind basal 1/4; elytral fall (declivity) at base not vertical, instead steeply descending towards mesonotum, exposing slightly, or not at all, the scutellum in the slope; striae sparsely, deeply puctate, puncta appearing as pores surrounded by a dense coat of lineal or lanceolate scales; striae between tubercles on interstriae 3 and 7 totally disorganized. Corbel plate glabrous.

Length: 6.0-7.0 mm.

TYPE MATERIAL. — Holotype female, 6.8 x 4.3 mm, Mt. Koghi , 15.X.1963, C M Yoshimoto , BPBM. Paratypes with BPBM, IRSN, NZAC .

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — New Caledonia. 2 males, 5 females, Mt. Koghi , 500 m, 15.X.1963, feeding on leaves of plant # 2, C. M. Yoshimoto; 1 female, ‘ Nouvelle-Calédonie’, Coll. Fauvel. 8 specimens .