Limnobaris japonica Yoshihara & Morimoto, 1994

Prena, Jens, Korotyaev, Boris, Wang, Zhiliang, Ren, Li, Liu, Ning & Zhang, Runzhi, 2014, A taxonomic revision of Limnobaris Bedel in the strict sense (Coleoptera, Curculionidae, Baridinae), with particular emphasis on the species found in China, ZooKeys 416, pp. 41-66 : 48-49

Taxon classification Animalia Coleoptera Curculionidae

Limnobaris japonica Yoshihara & Morimoto, 1994

Limnobaris japonica Yoshihara & Morimoto, 1994: 447. Holotype male, Yunomata, Aomori Pref., Japan (ELKU).

Diagnosis.

Limnobaris japonica is the only species in Hokkaido, Honshu and the Kuril Islands that has dense lateroventral vestiture. Unlike Limnobaris dolorosa and Limnobaris t-album , the two other species with this trait, Limnobaris japonica has squamiform vestiture also on the prosternum. The penis is similarly elongate as in Limnobaris t-album but apically more gradually narrowed.

Distribution.

The species occurs in Hokkaido and Honshu ( Yoshihara and Morimoto 1994) and Sakhalin Oblast ( Egorov et al. 1996) (Fig. 13).

Biology.

Adult weevils have been collected from Carex thunbergii Steud. and unidentified Carex species ( Yoshihara and Morimoto 1994).

Material examined.

JAPAN. Hokkaido, Fukushima-cho, Sengen, 13.vi.1998 (JPPC 2). RUSSIA. Sakhalin Oblast: Kunashir Island, Yushno-Kurilsk, 15.vi.1991 (ZIN 1).