Odontocorynus tectus (Champion) Prena, 2008

Prena, Jens, 2008, Review ofOdontocorynusSchönherr (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Baridinae) with Descriptions of Four New Species, The Coleopterists Bulletin 62 (2), pp. 243-277 : 243-277

Odontocorynus tectus (Champion) , new combination

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Geraeus tectus Champion 1908: 292 . Holotype female, labeled: ‘‘Type’’, ‘‘ ♀ ’’, ‘‘ Oaxaca / Mexico / Hoege’’, ‘‘B.C.A. Col. IV.5./ Geraeus / tectus/ Champ.’’, handwritten ‘‘ Geraeus / tectus/ Cha’’ (BMNH).

Recognition. Odontocorynus tectus , together with O. townsendi , has the antenna least modified. Of the four males studied, only one showed minor modifications of the club, but all had distal desmomeres with elongate dorsal setae. Odontocorynus histriculus is similar, but has a more elongate body shape, the elytral apices more narrowly rounded, and (in males) the club noticeably modified.

Distribution. Central and southern Mexico (plus one isolated record from Nuevo León) to Costa Rica ( Fig. 39 ).

Type locality. Oaxaca, Mexico .

Material examined. MEXICO: Chiapas ( CMNC 1 , JPPC 1 , UNSM 1 ) , Guerrero ( CMNC 1 , JPPC 1 ) , Jalisco ( CWOB 1 , TAMU 2 ) , Michoacán ( USNM 1 ) , Morelos ( USNM 2 ) , Nayarit ( CWOB 2 ) , Nuevo León ( TAMU 2 ) , Oaxaca ( USNM 1 ) , Puebla ( USNM 1 ) . GUATEMALA: Baja Verapaz ( CMNC 4 , JPPC 3 ) . NICARAGUA: Matagalpa ( JPPC 1 ) . COSTA RICA: Puntarenas ( CWOB 1 ) . Total 26 specimens.

Temporal occurrence. Late May to mid September [13 dates].

Plant association. None recorded.

Figures

Figs. 37–39. Map of central Mexico (top) and northern Central America and Mexico (bottom) showing distributions of O. creperus, O. histriculus, O. latiscapus, O. luteogramma, O. nunume, O. procerus, O. subvittatus, O. suturaflava, and O. tectus.