Bonthaina solitaria Heller

Riedel, Alexander, 2024, Taxonomic review of weevils of the tribe Celeuthetini, mainly from Sundaland, Sulawesi and the Lesser Sunda Islands (Coleoptera, Curculionidae, Entiminae), Zootaxa 5464 (1), pp. 1-75 : 22-23

Bonthaina solitaria Heller

Bonthaina solitaria Heller, 1900: 21–22 . Type locality: SW Sulawesi, Mt. Lompobatang .

Description. Holotype ( Fig. 11a ). Length. Pronotum plus elytron 4.08 mm. Integument ferruginous; sparsely clothed with recumbent, ovate, greenish-iridescent scales. Head with sulcus separating rostral base curved. Eyes asymmetrically convex, drawn posteriad. Rostrum shorter than wide (0.84 X), sides subparallel; dorsum swollen. Pronotum 1.08 X longer than wide; scabrous-nodulate, medially with shallow impression. Elytra subovate 1.39 X as long as wide; dorsally somewhat flattened; intervals with scattered granules each bearing an upcurved scale; near declivity intervals 1, 3, and 5 with small tubercles. Genitalia. Penis ( Fig. 11b ) with sides of body subparallel to rounded apex. Apodeme [tip broken] at least as long as body of penis, attached to body with flexible loop. Endophallus long, with flagellum.

Material examined. Holotype male: INDONESIA, S-Sulawesi: Mt. Lompobatang , X-XI.1895, leg. Drs. Sarasin; labels ( Fig. 11c ); condition: fair, formerly pinned through right elytron; genitalia in glycerol in microtube; DNA extraction ARC4032 (GenBank # OR557447) ( SMTD).

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FIGURE 11. Bonthaina solitaria Heller, holotype: (a) Habitus (b) Penis (c) Labels.