Melanterius corosus (Boisduval, 1835)

Pinzón-Navarro, Sara V., Jennings, Debbie & Oberprieler, Rolf G., 2017, Host associations of Melanterius Erichson (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Cleogonini), with a diagnosis and delimitation of the genus and description of five new species, Zootaxa 4298 (1), pp. 1-77 : 29

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4298.1.1

publication LSID

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6017982

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/A160333C-FFB4-FF81-F287-A95FA666A7B4

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scientific name

Melanterius corosus (Boisduval, 1835)
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Melanterius corosus (Boisduval, 1835) View in CoL

( Figs. 48–49 View FIGURES 48 – 49, 59 – 60 )

Cryptorhynchus corosus Boisduval, 1835: 430 View in CoL

Melanterius piceirostris W. F. Erichson, 1842: 211 View in CoL ; Pullen et al., 2014: 227 (syn.) Melanterius adipatus Lea, 1899: 227 View in CoL ; Pullen et al., 2014: 227 (syn.)

Boisduval gave the origin of corosus View in CoL only as “ Nouvelle-Hollande ”, and Erichson that of piceirostris View in CoL similarly as “Neuholland”. The type locality of adipatus View in CoL is Sydney, and the types of the other two names may have been collected there as well. The species appears known only from New South Wales and the A.C.T. It is a short, broad, virtually asetose species (only minute, sparse silvery setae on the elytra and flat, broader scales on the legs) with indistinct striae (only rows of separate, large, elongate open punctures) and broad, slightly convex, shagreened interstriae. Even though its procoxae are almost contiguous, it has a flat mesoventrite. The body of the penis ( Fig. 49 View FIGURES 48 – 49, 59 – 60 ) is short and broad, gently narrowing apicad and with a broadly rounded, weakly sclerotized apex and a large, characteristic basal sclerite.

The species has been reared in the Sydney area from seeds of A. longifolia , A. suaveolens and A. ulicifolia by T. Auld in 1981/1982 ( Auld, 1983, 1989) and of A. brownii by T. Auld in 1985. We collected series of specimens from A. gordonii , A. suaveolens and A. ulicifolia in the Blue Mountains National Park, and a female was taken on A. complanata in the Newfoundland State Forest ( Table 1). It appears that A. suaveolens , A. ulicifolia and perhaps A. gordonii are larval hosts ( Table 2), but the species is evidently not host-specific.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Curculionidae

Genus

Melanterius

Loc

Melanterius corosus (Boisduval, 1835)

Pinzón-Navarro, Sara V., Jennings, Debbie & Oberprieler, Rolf G. 2017
2017
Loc

Melanterius piceirostris

Pullen 2014: 227
Pullen 2014: 227
Lea 1899: 227
Erichson 1842: 211
1842
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