Chryasus nimius Prena, 2024

Prena, Jens, 2024, Consolidation of Aniops Casey, Psiona Casey, Preglyptobaris Bondar and Prospoliata Hustache with Chryasus Champion (Coleoptera, Curculionidae, Baridinae) and descriptions of new species, Zootaxa 5492 (1), pp. 1-24 : 7

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5492.1.1

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13212310

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/3C883E6E-8272-415B-9D75-149F25FA5989

taxon LSID

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scientific name

Chryasus nimius Prena
status

sp. nov.

4. Chryasus nimius Prena , new species

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Diagnosis. Chryasus nimius is the most slender among the large humped species. The interstrial ridges on the elytral disc are interrupted by two transverse depressions.

Description: Total length 5.3–5.4 mm, width 2.5–2.6 mm (n=2); integument black, antenna and tarsus brown; body elongate rhomboidal, sides of pronotum and elytra for most parts gradually converging, pronotum moderately vaulted, distinctly vermiculate on disc and shallowly punctate on flank, elytron with two transverse depressions, interstriae ridged, male metaventral protuberance angularly pronounced and cleft by discrimen, male ventrites 1, 2 and 5 shallowly depressed and with erect squamulae; all femora with denticles almost entirely reduced except for 1; genitalia not examined.

Material examined. Holotype male, labeled “Est. Magsasay, P.N./ Braulio Carrillo, 200 m / Prov. Here, COSTA RICA / M. Barrelier, Ene 1991,/ L-N-254600, 531100”, CRI000 064266 ( MNCR) . Paratype (1 male): Costa Rica, Puntarenas, Quepos, P.N. Manuel Antonio, R. Zúñiga, Abr. 1991, CRI000 601953 ( MNCR) .

Etymology. The name is a Latin adjective meaning very big or too big.

MNCR

Museo Nacional de Costa Rica

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Curculionidae

Genus

Chryasus

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