Rhinodontus crassiscapus Borovec, 2003

Ren, Li, Borovec, Roman & Zhang, Runzhi, 2020, On Chinese Trachyphloeini with description of four new species (Coleoptera, Curculionidae, Entiminae), ZooKeys 974, pp. 93-119 : 93

Rhinodontus crassiscapus Borovec, 2003 Figs 9 , 10 , 30

Rhinodontus crassiscapus Borovec, 2003: 38 (original description); Borovec 2009: 76 (check-list); Alonso-Zarazaga et al. 2017: 403 (catalogue).

Material examined.

China - Qinghai Prov. • 2 ♀♀; Ю. скл. хр. Бурхан-Будда: дoл. oз. Алык-нoр. 30.V.1900. Експ. Кoзлoва. [southern slope of the mountains Burchan-Buddha, valley of the lake Alake Hu. 30.v.1900; Kozlov’s expedition]; ZIN.

Remarks.

This species was described based on three females from China, Xinjiang and Gansu. This is the first additional locality since the original description.

Rhinodontus crassiscapus differs from all other species of the genus by its very short, distally thickened scape and by its long raised elytral setae being longer than one half of the interval width.

Figures

Figures 9 - 16. Habitus of species of Rhinodontus: 9, 10 R. crassiscapus, female, dorsal and lateral view 11, 12 R. ignarus, female, dorsal and lateral view 13, 14 R. mongolicus, female, dorsal and lateral view 15, 16 R. proximus, female, dorsal and lateral view. Scale bars: 1 mm.

Figures 26 - 35. Genitalia of Rhinodontodes and Rhinodontus: 26 Penis of Rhinodontodes alashanensis sp. nov., dorsal and lateral view 27 Penis of Rhinodontodes subsignatus, dorsal and lateral view 28 Spermatheca of Rhinodontodes alashanensis sp. nov. 29 Spermatheca of Rhinodontodes subsignatus 30 Spermatheca of Rhinodontus crassiscapus 31 Penis of Rhinodontus ignarus, dorsal and lateral view 32 Spermatheca of Rhinodontus ignarus 33 Spermatheca of Rhinodontus mongolicus 34 Spermatheca of Rhinodontus proximus 35 Spermatheca of Rhinodontus sawadai. Scale bars: 0.50 mm (26, 27, 31); 0.25 mm (28 - 30, 32 - 35).