Elaeidobius singularis ( Faust, 1898 ) Haran & Beaudoin-Ollivier & Benoit & Kuschel, 2020

Haran, Julien M., Beaudoin-Ollivier, Laurence, Benoit, Laure & Kuschel, Guillermo, 2020, Revision of the palm-pollinating weevil genus Elaeidobius Kuschel, 1952 (Curculionidae, Curculioninae, Derelomini) with descriptions of two new species, European Journal of Taxonomy 684, pp. 1-32 : 23-24

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5852/ejt.2020.684

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:B88F38A8-C3C7-47BA-8F1B-46D9F127F10B

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4331362

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03ABCE59-FFE0-FF9E-BEA7-CD756BA8FABD

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Valdenar

scientific name

Elaeidobius singularis ( Faust, 1898 )
status

comb. nov.

Elaeidobius singularis ( Faust, 1898) comb. nov.

Figs. 1H View Fig , 3D View Fig , 4H View Fig , 5H View Fig

Derelomus singularis Faust, 1898: 224 .

Derelomus uelensis Hustache, 1932: 68 . syn. nov.

Material examined

Lectotype (here designated)

DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO • ♂; “ Landana. Congo. Oberthur” “ D singularis Fst. ” “Coll. J. Faust. Ankauf 1900” “ type ” “Staatl. Museum für. Tierkunde Dresden” “ Lectotype ♂ [here designated]. Derelomus singularis Faust, 1898 . Kuschel 2013” “ Elaeidobius singularis ( Faust, 1898) . Kuschel 2013”; MTD.

Paralectotype (here designated)

DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO • 1 ♀; same collection data as for lectotype; “ Paralectotype ♀. Derelomus singularis Faust, 1898 . Kuschel 2013” “ Elaeidobius singularis ( Faust, 1898) . Kuschel 2013”; MTD .

Other material

DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO • ♂, lectotype of Derelomus uelensis Hustache, 1932 [here designated], labelled as “ Elaeidobius singularis ( Faust 1898) Kuschel 2009 ”; Haut-Uelé, Moto ; 1922; L. Burgeon; MRAC 3 ♂♂, 2 ♀♀; Kindu; Nov. 1913; L. Burgeon leg.; MRAC 1 ♀; Haut-Loporiv ; 1927; J. Ghesquiere leg.; MRAC 1 ♀; Haut-Uelé, Watsa ; 1922; L. Burgeon leg.; MRAC .

ANGOLA • 2 ♂♂; CE Salazar; 9.16º S, 14.55º E; 14 May 1973; Carvalho leg.; oil palm inflorescence; TMP GoogleMaps .

GHANA • 1 ♂; Godbe; 2015; on inflorescences of E. guineensis ; JHAR00283_0101 ; CBGP .

Diagnosis (♂ ♀)

BODY LENGTH. 2.2–3.0 mm.

COLOUR. Yellowish or reddish brown, shiny rostrum in part, meso and metasternum dark; prothorax with vague, dark stripe on sides of discal foveae, elytra usually dark near basal ¼ of interstria 6 and an oblique band from middle of interstria 3 or 4 to ¾ of interstria 8.

HEAD. Forehead in male impressed. Rostrum in male a fraction shorter than prothorax, without erect hairs or tubercle on underside, in female 1.5 × longer than prothorax.

PROTHORAX. Disc with a pair of large, deep foveae; apical collar at base usually with a transverse row of black dots; lateral carina fine, continued to apex.

ELYTRA. Without long erect setae on margin and suture, in male often with a conspicuous swelling at base of interstria, in small males reduced or absent; prosternum without protruding process.

ABDOMEN. Ventrite 1–2 flattened on middle, not impressed, with fine, appressed pubescence and no semi-erect hairs. Tergites 3–6 undivided on midline, tergite 7 strongly advancing forward against tergite 6; granules of stridulatory organ evenly distributed on entire line, up to 18 in number per row.

GENITALIA. Penis a little longer than the last three ventrites; body 2.3 × as long as apodemes, about 2 × as long as wide (ratio w/l: 0.48), symmetrical, tapering with slight curve to apex ( Fig. 4H View Fig ); internal sac with a pair of small frena.

Life history

In inflorescences of the oil palm, Elaeis guineensis (Arecaceae) ( Mariau & Genty 1988).

Distribution

Benin (Cotonou, Dassa, Niaouli, Pob è); Cameroon (Edu Ngat, Ekondo Titi, Kienke, Mbalmayo, Moliwe); Democratic Republic of Congo (Haut-Lopori, Haut Uelé: Moto, Watsa, Kindu, Landana, Luluabourg); Gabon (Kome Estate); Ghana (Gobbe); Ivory Coast (Bonoua, Boudoukal); Nigeria (Obaretin); Togo (Kloto).

Remarks

Elaeidobius singularis is readily distinguished in the male by having a tumescent 4 th interstria at the base (though reduced or even absent at times in some small individuals), and no semi-erect hairs on the abdomen, and by the elytra without long erect setae on the margin and on the suture. This taxon was described on a male and a female from Landana in the current Democratic Republic of Congo. In the collection of J. Faust housed at MTD, we found a male and a female pinned on the same pin with the identification “ D singularis Faust. ” “Landana, Congo ” and bearing a red “type” label. The description of this species does not refer to a holotype, therefore the male syntype was designated as the lectotype of Derelomus singularis Faust, 1898 and was labelled accordingly. The female syntype was labelled as the paralectotype of this species.

Hustache described D. uelensis based on five specimens collected by L. Burgeon in Moto ( Democratic Republic of Congo). In the collections of the MRAC, only one specimen from Moto could be located and bore a red paratypus label. This specimen is here designated as the lectotype for D. uelensis and labelled accordingly. The other four specimens of this series are from Kindu and not from Moto as reported by Hustache (1932). These specimens also bear paratypus labels and were labelled as paralectotypes of this species. Observations made on the external and internal morphology of specimens of this series showed no difference from the holotype of Elaeidobius singularis . Consequently, the name Derelomus uelensis should be considered as a junior synonym of Elaeidobius singularis .

MTD

Germany, Dresden, Museum fuer Tierkunde

MRAC

Belgium, Tervuren, Musee Royal de l'Afrique Centrale

MTD

Museum of Zoology Senckenberg Dresden

MRAC

Musée Royal de l’Afrique Centrale

TMP

Transvaal Museum

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Curculionidae

Genus

Elaeidobius

Loc

Elaeidobius singularis ( Faust, 1898 )

Haran, Julien M., Beaudoin-Ollivier, Laurence, Benoit, Laure & Kuschel, Guillermo 2020
2020
Loc

Derelomus uelensis

Hustache A. 1932: 68
1932
Loc

Derelomus singularis

Faust J. 1898: 224
1898
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