Peridinetus nodicollis Champion

Prena, Jens, 2010, The Middle American species of Peridinetus Schönherr (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Baridinae), Zootaxa 2507, pp. 1-36 : 33-34

26. Peridinetus nodicollis Champion

( Fig. 64, 65 )

Peridinetus nodicollis Champion, 1907: 178 . Seidlitz (1909: 326), Hustache (1938: 9), Blackwelder (1947: 887), O’Brien & Wibmer (1982: 178).

Diagnosis. Peridinetus nodicollis is a small species with glabrous pronotal disk and rather inconspicuous color pattern ( Fig. 64 ). The elytron has narrow white stripes on the base of interstria 3 and in the distal section of the ill-defined ochreous fascia. The studied specimens were 2.9–3.8 mm long (standard length 2.8–3.7 mm).

Distribution. This species has been found on both sides of the Cordillera de Talamanca in Costa Rica, in Panama and on the Pacific side of Ecuador (not recorded from Colombia). It is here newly recorded for South America.

Plant association. Piper deductum (Prena 1 ×).

Type material. 2 syntypes, Panamá, Bugaba ( BMNH 1) and Volcán ( BMNH 1).

Material examined. Costa Rica. Limón: Amubri, 70 m ( INBC 3); Manzanilla, 50 m ( INBC 2). Puntarenas: Buenos Aires, 550 m ( INBC 1); Osa, P.N. Corcovado, Est. Agujas , 300 m ( INBC 1, JPPC 1), Est. Esquinas, 200 m ( INBC 3), Est. Sirena, 10 m ( INBC 11), Est. Leona, 50 m ( JPPC 1); Osa, Rancho Quemado , 200 m ( INBC 4); Osa, Río Rincón ( JPPC 2); Osa, 5 mi SW Rincón ( CHAH 1); R.B. Carara, Est. Quebrada Bonita, 50 m ( INBC 33); Quepos, P.N. Manuel Antonio, 80 m ( INBC 13, JPPC 3). Panamá. Bocas del Toro: Corriente Grande, 100 m ( HPSC 1); 15 km SSW Changuinola, 300 m ( JPPC 2). Canal Area: Barro Colorado Island ( CHAH 1); Coco Solo Hospital ( HPSC 1); Madden Forest ( CHAH 1); Pipeline Road ( HPSC 1). Chiriquí: Bugaba ( BMNH 1); Volcán ( BMNH 1). Coclé: El Valle, 750 m ( HPSC 2). Colón: Portobelo ( USNM 6); XX Plantation ( USNM 1). Darién: Cana , 450 m ( HPSC 1). Panamá: Cerro Campana, 850 m ( CHAH 1). Ecuador. Esmeraldas: Canton San Lorenzo, Chuchubi ( CWOB 2); Los Ríos: Río Palenque Station ( CNCI 1). Pichincha: Maquipucuna Res., Cerro Nanegal ( CWOB 2); Santo Domingo de los Colorados, 550 m ( AMNH 1). Total 105 specimens.

Figures

FIGURES 58 – 65. Dorsal and lateral habitus of Peridinetus species. 58 – 59, P. ecuadoricus, Maquipucuna Reserve (Ecuador); 60 – 61, P. frontalis, Paraiso, C. Z. (Panamá); 62 – 63, P. opacus, Cerro Zurquí (Costa Rica); 64 – 65, P. nodicollis, Portobelo (Panamá).