Peridinetus canus Champion

Prena, Jens, 2010, The Middle American species of Peridinetus Schönherr (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Baridinae), Zootaxa 2507, pp. 1-36 : 12-14

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Peridinetus canus Champion
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5. Peridinetus canus Champion View in CoL

( Fig. 17, 18 View FIGURES 17 – 24 )

Peridinetus canus Champion, 1907: 172 View in CoL . Champion (1909: 484), Seidlitz (1909: 325).

Conophoria cana View in CoL . Casey (1922: 9).

Peridinetus (Conophoria) canus View in CoL . Hustache (1938: 8), Blackwelder (1947: 886), O’Brien & Wibmer (1982: 178).

Conophoria cana dispersa Casey, 1922: 9 View in CoL . New synonymy.

Peridinetus (Conophoria) canus dispersus . Hustache (1938: 8), Blackwelder (1947: 886), O’Brien & Wibmer (1982: 178).

Diagnosis. Peridinetus canus has a distinctive, uniformly grey color pattern with dark marks on the apical part of the elytron ( Fig. 17 View FIGURES 17 – 24 ) and cannot be confused with any other species. The studied specimens were 6.4– 9.7 mm long (standard length 6.0–9.0 mm).

Distribution. This species occurs on the Pacific side of Cordillera de Talamanca in Costa Rica and Panama.

Plant association. Piper aereum (Prena 1 ×), P. glabrescens (Prena 2 ×), P. hispidum (Prena 8), P. phytolaccaefolium (Prena 1 ×).

Type material. P. c a n u s: 36 syntypes, Panamá, Bugaba ( BMNH 11, MNHUB 2, USNM 3) and Volcán ( BMNH 16, DEI 2, USNM 2 [including HT of C. cana dispersa ]). Conophoria cana dispersa : holotype, Panamá, Volcán ( USNM).

Material examined. Costa Rica. Guanacaste: Taboga, near Cañas ( CHAH 3). Puntarenas: P.N. Corcovado, without site ( INBC 2), Est. Agujas, 300 m ( INBC 1, JPPC 4), Est. Sirena, 50 m ( CHAH 1, INBC 10), Est. Esquinas, 10 m ( INBC 7); Osa, Río Rincón ( JPPC 2); Osa, 2.5 mi SW Rincón ( CHAH 4); Osa, Rancho Quemado , 200 m ( INBC 6); Osa, Piedras Blancas, Cerro Anguciana , 100 m ( INBC 1); Quebrada Piedras Blancas, 400 m ( INBC 2), R.B. Carara, Est. Quebrada Bonita, 50 m ( INBC 9); P.N. Manuel Antonio, 80 m ( INBC 4, JPPC 1); P.N. La Amistad, Sector Altamira, Buenos Aires ( INBC 2); Las Mellizas, Fca.

Cafrosa, 1300 m ( INBC 1, JPPC 5); Tigra, 1300 m ( INBC 5); Fundación Dúrika, 1700 m ( JPPC 2); Est. Pittier, 1700-1800 m ( INBC 1); Coto Brus, Est. Las Alturas, 1500 m ( INBC 5); Cotoncito, 3.5 km N de la Lucha, 1600 m ( INBC 1); Fila Cruces, Laguna Gamboa, 1400 m ( INBC 1); Las Cruces ( AMNH 1, CHAH 2, CMNC 1, JPPC 1); Agua Buenas, Est. Boscosa ( CMNC 1); Piedras Negras ( USNM 1). San José: 12 km NE San Isidro del General, Cerro Chucuyo, 1350 m ( JPPC 3). Panamá. Chirquí: Las Lagunas, 4 km W El Hato del Volcán, 1360 m ( CMNC 1, HPSC 5, JWPC 1); Sta. Clara ( CMNC 1, HPSC 1); Río Sereno, 1000 m ( HPSC 1); Volcán, 1600 m ( BMNH 1, HPSC 1, USNM 2); Cerro Punta ( CMNC 1); Bugaba ( USNM 3, MNHUB 2). Panamá: near Gamboa, Plantation rd. ( USNM 1). Total 138 specimens.

Note. Casey (1922) was mincing Champion’s (1907) words when he described one syntype of P. canus (a homogeneous series from two sites in Chiriquí) as Conophora cana dispersa . The available records show that this is a single, well-defined species that is restricted to the Pacific side of the Cordillera de Talamanca. Conophora cana dispersa is a new subjective synonym of P. canus .

Blackwelder, R. E. (1947) Checklist of the Coleopterous insects of Mexico, Central America, the West Indies, and South America. Part 5. Bulletin. United States National Museum, 185, i - iv, 765 - 925.

Casey, T. L. (1922) Studies in the Rhynchophorous subfamily Barinae of the Brazilian fauna. Memoirs on the Coleoptera, 10, 1 - 520.

Champion, G. C. (1907) Insecta. Coleoptera. Rhynchophora. Curculionidae. Curculioninae (continued) [pp. 137 - 240]. In: Champion, G. C. (1906 - 1909) Biologia Centrali-Americana. Vol. 4, part 5, 513 pp. + 23 pls.

Champion, G. C. (1909) Insecta. Coleoptera. Rhynchophora. Curculionidae. Curculioninae (continued). Supplement [pp. 479 - 497]. In: Champion, G. C. (1906 - 1909) Biologia Centrali-Americana. Vol. 4, part 5, 513 pp. + 23 pls.

Hustache, A. (1938) Pars 163: Curculionidae: Barinae. In: Junk, W. & Schenkling, S. (eds.) Coleopterorum Catalogus. ' s-Gravenhage, 219 pp.

O'Brien, C. W. & Wibmer, G. (1982) Annotated checklist of the weevils (Curculionidae sensu lato) of North America, Central America, and the West Indies (Coleoptera: Curculionidae). Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute, 34, i - ix, 1 - 382.

Seidlitz, G. (1909) Bericht uber die wissenschaftlichen Leistungen im Gebiete der Entomologie wahrend des Jahres 1907. Coleoptera. Archiv fur Naturgeschichte, 2 (2), 55 - 392.

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FIGURES 17 – 24. Dorsal and lateral habitus of Peridinetus species. 17 – 18, P. ca n u s, Volcán (Panamá); 19 – 20, P. rubens, Cerro Campana (Panamá); 21 – 22, P. cretaceus, Turrialba (Costa Rica); 23 – 24, P. distinctus, Columbia Forest (Belize).

USNM

Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History

DEI

Senckenberg Deutsches Entomologisches Institut

INBC

Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad (INBio)

AMNH

American Museum of Natural History

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Curculionidae

Genus

Peridinetus