Curculio wangi Pelsue and Zhang

Pelsue, Frank W. & Zhang, Runzhi, 2003, A Review of the Genus Curculio from China with Descriptions of Fourteen New Species. Part IV. The Curculio sikkimensis (Heller) Group (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Curculioninae: Curculionini), The Coleopterists Bulletin 57 (3), pp. 311-333 : 326

Curculio wangi Pelsue and Zhang , new species

(Figs. 29–30, 56)

Holotype. China. Xishuangbanna female [ China / Yunnan /Xishuangbanna/ 850 m /26

October 1957/S. Wang] ( IZAS).

Description. Female: length: 6.7 mm (n ¼ 1); width: 3.4 mm (n ¼ 1). Head: Large-sized; punctures small with short, narrow, elongate, testaceous scales; frons 0.23 (n ¼ 1) as broad as head across eyes, few narrow, elongate, testaceous scales, deep interocular fovea. Rostrum: length: 4.9 mm (n ¼ 1); 0.73 as long as body; cylindrical; base with short dorsal carina flanked by small punctures; straight proximal to apex then gradually deflected at apex; scrobe lateral; scape inserted in basal half. Antennae: length: scape 1.5 mm; funiculus segment one 0.55 mm, two 0.4 mm, three 0.3 mm, four 0.25 mm, five 0.2 mm, six 0.2 mm, seven 0.25 mm, club 0.7 mm (n ¼ 1); funicle 2.1 mm; scape 0.71 as long as funicle; club small-sized, as long as funicular segments 5–7; scape not as long as funicular segments 1–4. Thorax: length: 2.2 mm (n ¼ 1). width: 2.5 mm (n ¼ 1); 0.88 as long as broad; disc robust in dorsal view, margins broadly rounded to constriction, punctures set in rugae, clothed with mixture of narrow, elongate, testaceous and cinerous scales; pleuron clothed with clavate cinerous scales, slightly convex in lateral view; mesosternal intercoxal process prominent; scutellum small, longer than broad, clothed with cinerous scales; mesepimeron, mesepisternum, metepisternum with clavate, cinerous scales; base rounded. Elytra: length: 4.3 mm (n ¼ 1); striae deep, punctures small with short, narrow, elongate, testaceous and clavate cinerous scales; humeri prominent, broadly rounded; intervals broad, flat, clothed with narrow, elongate to clavate, testaceous scales; feeble broad macula of cinerous scales from past midpoint to apex; crosshatched setae prominent. Legs: length hind femur 2.9 mm (n ¼ 1), tooth small, acute; profemoral tooth medium, wedge shaped; mesofemoral tooth small; base moderately broad, with moderate clava, clothed with narrow, elongate, cinerous scales; tibiae straight, pro-, mesouncus small, not as long as tarsal claw, metauncus very small. Abdomen: sternite 2 longer than 1 behind coxal cavity; sternites 3 and 4 equal in length, combined longer than 5; sternite 5 with acute apex, shallow declivity; sternites 1–3 clothed with clavate cinerous scales, sternite 4 basal scales clavate, distal scales narrow, elongate, cinerous; sternite 5 with short to longer, narrow, elongate, cinerous scales. Pygidium: small , concealed. Genitalia: spermatheca: ramus erect, oblique; collum evenly margined to bluntly rounded apex; cornu moderately broad narrowing to narrow rounded apex (n ¼ 1) (Fig. 56).

Remarks. This species appears similar to C. careoparvus n. sp., but can be distinguished by the prominent mesosternal intercoxal process.

Etymology. This species is named in honor of the collector ‘‘S. Wang.’’