Phaenithon albosparsus Labram & Imhoff, 1841

Orellana, Samanta & Barrios, Héctor, 2021, Catalogue of the Anthribidae (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea) of Panama, including new country records and a key to genera, Zootaxa 4904 (1), pp. 1-71 : 13

6. Phaenithon albosparsus Labram & Imhoff, 1841 [New Country Record]

Figs. 4 , 10 .

Phaenithon albosparsus Labram & Imhoff, 1841: 162 ; Gemminger & Harold, 1872: 2737 (catalog); Bovie, 1906: 279; Wolfrum,

1929: 66 (catalog); Rheinheimer, 2004: 71 (catalog). Type locality: French Guiana: Cayenne (type material in MZLU?). Phaenithon albosparsum Jekel, 1955: 142 in Blackwelder 1947: 769 (catalog).

Material examined. PANAMA: [COLÓN] Canal Zone, Plantation Road, C29 6.5 km ENE Gamboa 9°8’N, 79°39’W, 2-VIII-1978, [col.] H.A. Hespenheide, det. B.D. Valentine 1992, B.D. Valentine BEQUEST (1, NMNH) ; [DARIÉN] Darién N [ational]. P[ark]. Rancho Frío ANAM station, on tree trunk, 8.0198, -77.7325, 22.IV.2014 leg. S.S. Anzaldo (1, SSAC) ; [ PANAMÁ OESTE] Barro Colorado Island , 17-23-VII-1988, light trap, without collector data (1, MEUP) ; Barro Colorado Island , 28-V-2003, Malaise trap MT315, ID-45608, [col.] D. Windsor (1, MEUP) .

Distribution. Panama *(Colón *, Darién *, Panamá Oeste*); French Guiana [not Brazil, as reported mistakenly in Bovie (1906), Blackwelder (1947) and Rheinheimer (2004)].

Figures

FIGURES 3–8. Species of Anthribidae recorded from Panama, dorsal habitus. (Tribe Basitropini) 3, Eugonus subcylindricus Fahraeus. 4, Phaenithon albosparsus Labram & Imhoff. 5, Phaenithon curvipes (Germar). 6, Phaenithon discifer Jordan.7, Phaenithon jucundus Jordan. 8, Phaenithon perfectus Jordan. Scale bar: 1 mm.

FIGURES 9–14. Species of Anthribidae recorded from Panama, lateral habitus. (Tribe Basitropini) 9, Eugonus subcylindricus Fahraeus. 10, Phaenithon albosparsus Labram & Imhoff. 11, Phaenithon curvipes (Germar). 12, Phaenithon discifer Jordan. 13, Phaenithon jucundus Jordan. 14, Phaenithon perfectus Jordan. Scale bar: 1 mm.