Nothes Marshall, 1956

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 : 42

Nothes Marshall

Nothes Marshall, 1956: 90 .

Type species: Trigonops kombuisana Marshall, 1925 , by original designation.

Description. Integument ferruginous, largely covered with appressed, contiguous, microgranulate scales. Head short; with angulate, transverse sulcus separating rostral base deeply incised, laterally leading to antennal scrobe; vertex with deep radial furrows. Eyes convex, protruding; separated from front margin of prothorax by ca. 0.8 X length of eye. Profile anteriorly with constriction. Rostrum short; dorsum densely squamose, with median sulcus; apical declivity distinct, posteriorly punctate-rugose, with sparse suberect clavate scales; dorsal profile convex. Antenna. Scape stout, squamose, with suberect scales. Funicle with articles 1 and 2 subequal. Pronotum granulate, punctate-rugose. Metanepisternum narrow. Elytra short, subovate, with 10 regular striae, without protrusions [in female: dorsally flattened and apex produced beak-like downwards ( Marshall, 1925)]. Legs. Protibia basally simple, in apical half ventrally denticulate. Venter. Procoxae approximate, separated by 0.13 X procoxal diameter; distance to apex 0.7 X distance to base of prothorax. Mesoventral process subquadrate, 0.83 X as long as posterior width. Genitalia. Penis ( Fig. 23b ). Apodeme>1.59 X as long as body of penis, attached to body with flexible loop. Transfer apparatus flagelliform.

Notes. The single described species comes from a tiny island near Java. Very similar species were found on mountains of West Java.

Figures

FIGURE 23. Nothes kombuisana (Marshall). Trigonops kombuisana Marshall, lectotype: (a) Habitus (b) Penis.