Nesocyrtosoma bromelicolus, Garrido & Varela, 2010

Hopp, Katie J., 2011, Nesocyrtosoma bromelicolusGarrido and Varela, A New Synonym ofNesocyrtosoma crenulatumHopp and Ivie (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae), The Coleopterists Bulletin 65 (3), pp. 242-242 : 242

NESOCYRTOSOMA BROMELICOLUS GARRIDO AND VARELA, A NEW SYNONYM OF NESOCYRTOSOMA CRENULATUM HOPP AND IVIE ( COLEOPTERA : TENEBRIONIDAE )

KATIE J. HOPP Santa Barbara County Agricultural Commissioner’ s Office 263 Camino del Remedio, Santa Barbara, CA 93111, U.S.A. [e-mail]

The genus Nesocyrtosoma Marcuzzi, 1976 was recently revised (Hopp and Ivie 2009). That publication included the description of 27 new species, bringing the total number of species to 45. The species Nesocyrtosoma crenulatum Hopp and Ivie was described from 18 specimens from the Dominican Republic provinces of Independencia, La Altagracia, and Pedernales. This very distinctive species can be distinguished from all other species of Nesocyrtosoma by its large size (8.0–11.0 mm long) and crenulate lateral edges of the pronotum. During a January 2008 visit to the personal collection of Orlando H. Garrido in Havana, Cuba, Michael Ivie and I studied four specimens from Las Mercedes, Pedernales province, that Garrido had placed under the nomen nudum Crenalops quisqueyanus and which we identified to him as N. crenulatum, but which he declined to have included in our type series (see Hopp and Ivie 2009, last lines of page 44). In 2010, Garrido and Varela described Nesocyrtosoma bromelicolus, based in part on these same specimens. In short, the unmistakable morphology of this species, the localities from which specimens were collected, and the material examined by Ivie and myself in Garrido’ s collection requires the synonymy of N. bromelicolus with N. crenulatum, new synonymy.

The fact that our revision was not cited by Garrido and Varela may indicate that the manu- script was prepared for publication before Hopp and Ivie (2009) appeared, but was then actually published afterwards, thus explaining the redescription of this distinctive species.

The collection records from Garrido and Varela (2010) provide new information about the biological habits of this species. The holotype and four of the paratypes were collected from bromeliads, a new association for the genus.