Asytesta maura Pascoe, 1865

Setliff, Gregory P., 2012, 3462, Zootaxa 3462, pp. 1-125 : 29

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85BB1029-70B2-4134-A52B-0B088BCA0877

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5256687

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scientific name

Asytesta maura Pascoe
status

 

Asytesta maura Pascoe View in CoL ( Figures 96–97)

Faust (1898: 161) was the first to suspect that A. maura did not belong in Asytesta , citing Pascoe’s original description of the tibiae. This species has longitudinally ridged tibiae, very coarse punctation, large conical granules dorsally, and a row of fine sclerolepidia on the anapleural margin of the metepisternum. The species also lacks a corona on the vertex of the head, internal flanges on the protibia, and elevated prominences on the third elytral intervals. All of these conditions separate A. maura from Asytesta and all other crowned weevils. I have compared Pascoe’s type specimen with type material of Microporopterus paucus Heller and determined that the two species are congeneric. Thus, I transfer A. maura to that genus: Microporopterus maura (Pascoe) new combination.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Curculionidae

Genus

Asytesta

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