Curculio mullai 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 : 320-322

Curculio mullai Pelsue and Zhang , new species

( Figs. 19–20 )

Holotype. China. Xishuangbanna female[ China / Yunnan /Xishuangbanna/ 850 m /15

June 1957/L. Zang] ( IZAS).

Description. Female: length: 5.1 mm (n ¼ 1). width: 2.7 mm (n ¼ 1). Head: medium-sized; punctures small; clothed with small, narrow, white scales basally, testaceous scales apically; frons 0.1 as broad as head across eyes, fringe of small, narrow, white scales along eye margin; interocular fovea. Rostrum: length: 2.7 mm (n ¼ 1); 0.53 as long as body; cylindrical from base to apex; almost straight; small punctures; scrobe lateral; scape inserted in basal half. Antennae: length: scape 0.7 mm. funiculus: segment one 0.4 mm, two 0.3 mm, three 0.2 mm, four 0.2 mm, five 0.2 mm, six 0.15 mm, seven 0.15 mm, club 0.4 mm, funicle 1.6 mm (n ¼ 1); scape 0.43 as long as funicle; club small, elongate, acuminate, not as long as funicular segments 5–7. Thorax: length: 1.5 mm (n ¼ 1); width: 1.9 mm (n ¼ 1); 0.78 as long as broad; disc clothed with narrow, elongate, white and rubiginose scales, feebly rounded to constriction; convex in lateral view; pleuron clothed with narrow, elongate, white scales; base evenly arced dorsally; mesosternal intercoxal process feebly or not visible in lateral view; scutellum small, longer than broad, clothed with white scales; mesepimeron, mesepisternum, metepisternum, pro-, meso-, and metasternum clothed with narrow, elongate, white scales. Elytra: length: 3.4 mm (n ¼ 1); striae shallow with deep large punctures and small narrow, elongate, white scales; humeri prominent; intervals narrow clothed with confused pattern of narrow, elongate, white scales and shorter numerous rubiginose scales; crosshatched setae not prominent. Legs: length: hind femur 2.2 mm (n ¼ 1); all femora with small, acute teeth, base robust, clava feebly robust; all femora clothed with narrow, elongate, white scales; hind femur reaches apex of abdomen; tibiae feebly sinuate, pro-, meso-, and metuncus small. Abdomen: sternite 2 longer than 1 behind coxal cavity; sternite 2 ascending to 3; sternites 3 and 4 equal in length, combined longer than 5; sternite 5 truncate apically; all sternites clothed with narrow, elongate, white scales. Pygidium: small . Genitalia: not dissected.

Remarks. Stands alone from the remainder of the group by the almost straight rostrum and the confused white scale pattern on the pronotum and elytra.

Etymology. Named in honor of the senior author’s friend and major Professor Mir

S. Mulla.

Figures

Figs. 19–20. Curculio mullai n. sp. Female, habitus dorsal and lateral views, holotype. Figs. 21–22. Curculio megadens n. sp. Male, habitus dorsal and lateral views, holotype. Figs. 23–24. Curculio careoparvus n. sp. Male, habitus dorsal and lateral views, holotype. Fig. 24. Arrow indicates medium tooth. Various scales.