Asytesta ypsilon Heller, 1903
Setliff, Gregory P., 2012, 3462, Zootaxa 3462, pp. 1-125 : 30
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85BB1029-70B2-4134-A52B-0B088BCA0877 |
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5256689 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/215F8784-0C75-EB2D-FF66-10C8F6D5FE07 |
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Felipe |
scientific name |
Asytesta ypsilon Heller |
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Asytesta ypsilon Heller View in CoL ( Figures 98–99)
This handsome species is hereby transferred to Meroleptus Faust. Meroleptus ypsilon (Heller) , new combination lacks the shared features of the crowned weevil group. Like other Meroleptus species , it has a broad, transverse, glabrous band across the vertex of the head at the point of articulation with the pronotum, three distinct carinae on the dorsal face of the rostrum, and very large, shiny, round tubercles on the pronotum and elytra that protrude beyond the densely arranged vestiture. I have compared type material for M. ypsilon with Meroleptus gemmatus Faust , M. bacatus Heller , and M. mus Heller. Meroleptus ypsilon appears to be more closely related to the latter species based on the arrangement of its most prominent tubercles on the sides rather than the dorsum as in the two former species.
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