Plumolepilius camuna Barrios-Izás, 2020

Barrios-Izás, Manuel A., 2020, Taxonomy of the weevil genus Plumolepilius Barrios-Izás & Anderson (Coleoptera Curculionidae: Molytinae: Conotrachelini): new species from Central America, Zootaxa 4768 (2), pp. 151-192 : 159-160

Plumolepilius camuna Barrios-Izás , new species

( Figs. 24–27 , 165 )

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Diagnosis: Male. Length (1.63 mm). Width (0.94 mm). Elongate-ovate, cuticle brown. Vestiture of recumbent, clavate, ochreous to brown scales, mesanepisternum and mesepimeron bare. Head covered with scales, scales almost reaching antennal insertions; bare section of rostrum polished, finely punctate; scrobes lateroventral, reaching the head, dorsal border slightly carinate, antenna inserted before middle of rostrum, scape clavate, as long as desmomeres 1 to 3 together, desmomere 1 longer than desmomere 2, funiculus and antennal club setose. Pronotum transverse, wider at middle, narrower than elytra, anterior margin annulate, moderately punctate, punctuations equidistant; postocular lobes conspicuous, bearing vibrissae. Elytra punctate-striate, humeri slightly angulate, interstices 4 at base of elytral declivity with a feebly produced tubercle, stria 10 complete. Abdominal ventrites scarcely punctate, suture of abdominal ventrite 1 and 2 complete but not articulated, abdominal ventrite 5 surface flat. Metanepisternal suture swollen. Femora armed with small spines, maximum width at longitudinal axis of spine, apex at outer side rounded and glossy. Pedon subparallel, strongly arcuate in lateral view; temones 2.8X longer than pedon; genital sclerites symmetric, small.

Female. Not known.

Geographic Distribution. Nicaragua (Jinotega). Derivation of the specific name. In apposition of the Canadian Museum of Nature. Material examined: 1♂ ( CMNC). Holotype ♂ ( CMNC): NICARAGUA: Jinotega, PN Cerro Saslaya, 13.77054

-85.03025 ± 50m, 1330m, 12.V.2011 LLAMA Wm-D-03-2-04 / WWD0063794 / Holotype ♂ Plumolepilius camuna

Barrios-Izás & Anderson sp. nov. Aedeagus extracted.

Note. During photography the thorax and head became detached from the holotype and were lost.

Figures

FIGURE 165. Map of Plumolepilius species distribution. P. andersoni (white circles), P. antonioi (red circles), P. camuna

FIGURES 24–27. Plumolepilius camuna. Male. 24, Dorsal habitus. 25, Tergite VIII and speculum gastrale. 26, Aedeagus dorsal view. 27, Aedeagus lateral view.