Entimus

Morrone, Juan J., 2002, The Neotropical Weevil Genus Entimus (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Entiminae): Cladistics, Biogeography, And Modes Of Speciation, The Coleopterists Bulletin 56 (4), pp. 501-513 : 503

Key to Species of Entimus

1 Body vestiture with green, blue, and gold iridescent, elongate to ovate scales ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2

19 Body vestiture with whitish, seta­like scales. Colombia, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, and Panama --------------------------------------------------------------- E. arrogans ( Fig. 3 )

2 Prementum as wide as long, with longitudinal median impression; postocular lobes acute; scales elongate (more than twice as long as wide) ---- 3

29 Prementum conspicuously wider than long, lacking longitudinal median impression; postocular lobes rounded; scales ovate (less than twice as long as wide). Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Panama, and Peru ----------------------------------------------------------------------- E. granulatus ( Fig. 6 )

3 Interstriae with rounded tubercles -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4

39 Interstriae lacking rounded tubercles -------------------------------------------------------------------- 5

4 Interstriae lacking scales; male legs with abundant, long, whitish setae. Brazil ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ E. nobilis ( Fig. 8 )

49 Interstriae with scales; male legs with few, long, whitish setae. Brazil -------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- E. excelsus ( Fig. 4 )

5 Elytral humeri acute; striae with scales not spreading outside punctures. Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay ------------------------------ E. imperialis ( Figs. 1 , 7 )

Figures

Figs. 2–5. Phaedropus togatus and Entimus spp., habitus photographs. 2) Phaedropus togatus (13 mm length); 3) Entimus arrogans (30 mm length); 4) E. excelsus (25 mm length); 5) E. fastuosus (35 mm length).

Figs. 6–9. Entimus spp., habitus photographs. 6) E. granulatus (30 mm length); 7) E. imperialis (28 mm length); 8) E. nobilis (29 mm length); 9) E. sastrei (22 mm length).

Fig. 1. Entimus imperialis, habitus drawing.