Sicoderus propinquus Vanin

Anderson, Robert S., 2018, The genus Sicoderus Vanin 1986 (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Curculioninae: Erodiscini) in the West Indies, Zootaxa 4497 (3), pp. 301-345 : 327

Sicoderus propinquus Vanin

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Sicoderus propinquus Vanin 1986: 586 . Holotype male (BMNH, lost) from Mustique Island, Grenadines, not examined. Anderson 1999: 135.

Description: Length 3.5–5.9 mm (both sexes pooled). Integument black, shining. Eyes separated by a distance about width of 3 ommatidia. Rostrum 1.12–1.23x length elytra in male; 1.3 2–1.38x length elytra in female. Antennal insertion at about apical two-fifths in male, slightly before middle in female. Prothorax constricted anteriorly, globose, widest at about middle; punctures sparse, small, elongate on disc, larger and deeper, forming striolae laterally on flanks; no setae present. Elytra in dorsal view widest at midlength, lateral margins convergent both anteriorly and posteriorly; humeri fully reduced, not at all angulate; no setae present. Strial punctures evident, small, shallow; striae not impressed. Membranous wings absent. Abdominal ventrite 1 of male slightly impressed at middle, with two moderately separated rounded tubercles near posterior margin of depression, each tubercle with small patch of fine setosity at tip; of female, uniformly convex in middle near posterior margin. Ventrite 5 with impression in apical one-half, convex in female. Legs with front femora with ventral margin with small tooth, middle and hind femora each with very small blunt tooth; tarsal claws lacking small basal tooth. Aedeagus not available for study. Female not available for study (specimens in BMNH lost).

Material examined: None.

Comments: Vanin (1986) described this species from a number of specimens from Mustique Island, Grenadines, and from Grenada. According to staff at the Natural History Museum in London, all specimens (holotype and nine paratypes) from their collection were lost in return transit following description and study by Vanin. The description of the species presented here is modified from Vanin (1986).