Magdalinops Dietz 1891:183

Clark, Wayne E. & Burke, Horace R., 2002, Revision Of The Weevil Genera Magdalinops Dietz And Chelonychus Dietz (Coleoptera: Curculionidae, Anthonomini), The Coleopterists Bulletin 56 (1), pp. 107-122 : 13-14

Magdalinops Dietz 1891:183 . Type species (by monotypy), Magdalinops vit­

tipennis Dietz. Kissinger 1964:52, 56. O’Brien and Wibmer 1982:105.

Diagnosis. Antennal club ovoid, compact; basal segment shining, glabrous, ca. 0.33–0.50 3 length of club; mesocoxae narrowly separated by distance 0.2– 0.3 3 width of one mesocoxa; funiculus with 7 articles; sternum 5 shorter than sterna 3 and 4 combined; tegmen y­shaped.

Plant Associations. Label data for three of the four species of Magdalinops indicate that they are associated with plants in the genera Artemisia and Chrysothamnus (Asteraceae) . No information is available on the fourth species. The immature stages are unknown.

Remarks. Dietz (1891) stated that in Magdalinops the antennal club is ‘‘ovoidal, shining, acuminate at apex.’’ The club is compact, the segments not as distinctly separated from each other as in other anthonomines. The basal segment of the club is longer in Magdalinops than in other anthonomines, ranging from ca. 0.50–0.33 times the length of the club. It is also more shining

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and more nearly glabrous than in other Anthonomini, especially in M. vittipennis .

Dietz (1891) described the mesocoxae in Magdalinops as ‘‘subcontiguous, that is, very narrowly separated by the mesosternum, which ends in a point, and does not articulate with the metasternum behind.’’ This is true of M. vittipennis , which has the mesocoxae separated by a distance ca. 0.1 3 the width of one mesocoxa. In the other three species of Magdalinops , however, the mesocoxae are more widely separated (ca. 0.2–0.3 3 as wide as one mesocoxa). In the latter feature, these are more like other anthonomines.