Theognete maziaki Anderson, 2010

Anderson, Robert S., 2010, A taxonomic monograph of the Middle American leaf-litter inhabiting weevil genus Theognete Champion (Coleoptera: Curculionidae; Molytinae; Lymantini) 2458, Zootaxa 2458 (1), pp. 1-127 : 46-47

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.2458.1.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:7E42061C-9D11-49C5-8737-CEED0864E699

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5325767

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/1A8FB336-6A84-46ED-BCBE-AE8F6A1B86CE

taxon LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:act:1A8FB336-6A84-46ED-BCBE-AE8F6A1B86CE

treatment provided by

Felipe

scientific name

Theognete maziaki Anderson
status

sp. nov.

39. Theognete maziaki Anderson , new species ( Figures 166 View FIGURES 165–168 , 201 View FIGURES 200–201 )

Diagnosis. Size. Length, male, 3.63–3.81mm. Width, male, 2.30–2.34mm. As for T. jonesi except vestiture not as dense, body form not as elongate. Aedeagus as in Fig. 201 View FIGURES 200–201 .

Geographical distribution. México (Chiapas).

Natural history. Collected from berlese extraction of leaf litter in a small canyon on the slopes of Cerro Tzontehuitz at an elevation of 2740m.

Derivation of specific name. Through her support of the Nature Discovery Fund at the Canadian Museum of Nature, this species is named after Leon Stephen Maziak of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, as a gift from Donna E. Maziak.

Material examined. 2♂ ( CMNC, ECOS). Holotype ♂ ( CMNC): MÉXICO: Chiapas. Municipio Chamula, Cerro Tzontehuitz , 15.VII.1994, R. Jones / HOLOTYPE ♂, Theognete maziaki sp. nov. R.S. Anderson. Aedeagus extracted. Paratype: MÉXICO. Chiapas. Municipio Chamula, Cerro Tzontehuitz , 15.VII.1994, R. Jones (1♂, CMNC) .

Chorological relationships. Sympatric with T. montana and T. scopulus .

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Curculionidae

Genus

Theognete

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