Pimelerodius sharpi ( SleePer, 1954 )

Anderson, Robert S., 2021, The Status of Species of Erodiscus Schoenherr, 1825 (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Curculioninae) Described by Elbert L. Sleeper, The Coleopterists Bulletin 75 (2), pp. 501-504 : 501-502

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.1649/0010-065X-75.2.501

publication LSID

urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:DC705096-A9F1-4A45-BE5A-B5DCE6FAE52B

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03A387BF-FFB0-2363-292E-2D15777EE7D3

treatment provided by

Felipe

scientific name

Pimelerodius sharpi ( SleePer, 1954 )
status

 

Pimelerodius sharpi ( SleePer, 1954) View in CoL ( Figs. 1–2 View Figs )

Erodiscus sharpi Sleeper 1954: 346 View in CoL . O’Brien and Wibmer 1982: 101. Described from a holotype female labeled Porto Bello, Panama, II-20.

Pimelerodius sharpi View in CoL ; Vanin 1986: 499.

Vanin (1986) was correct in his placement of this species in his new genus Pimelerodius Vanin, 1986 View in CoL . He based this on the character states as cited in Sleeper’s description of pronotum and elytra glabrous, elytral striae deeply impressed, abdominal ventrites 1 and 2 fused, the suture between them obsolete, and femora minutely dentate. Based on examination of the holotype female I can confirm the presence of these states, although the striae appear to be more shallowly impressed than indicated by Sleeper (and they are a continuous sulcus, not a series of punctures) and agree with his conclusion. The species will key to couplet 4 in Vanin’s key to Pimelerodius ( Vanin 1986: 478) View in CoL as elytral striae 1–6 are sulcate and not punctate. It differs from Pimelerodius sulcatipennis Vanin, 1986 View in CoL from Brazil by distribution, the shallower elytral sulci and the eyes placed slightly wider apart as noted in the couplet below.

1. Eyes contiguous, separated by less than the diameter of one ommatidium ( Vanin 1986; Fig. 159); elytral striae deeply impressed; Brazil..… Pimelerodius sulcatipennis Vanin View in CoL

1′. Eyes separated by the diameter of 2–3 ommatidia ( Fig. 1 View Figs ); elytral striae shallowly impressed ( Figs. 1–2 View Figs ); Panama …………… …………...… Pimelerodius sharpi (SleePer) View in CoL

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Curculionidae

Genus

Pimelerodius

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Curculionidae

Genus

Erodiscus

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Curculionidae

Genus

Pimelerodius

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Curculionidae

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Curculionidae

Genus

Pimelerodius

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Curculionidae

Genus

Pimelerodius

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Curculionidae

Genus

Pimelerodius

Loc

Pimelerodius sharpi ( SleePer, 1954 )

Anderson, Robert S. 2021
2021
Loc

Pimelerodius sharpi

Vanin, S. A. 1986: 499
1986
Loc

Erodiscus sharpi

O'Brien, C. W. & G. J. Wibmer 1982: 101
Sleeper, E. L. 1954: 346
1954
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