Maleuterpes collinus, Kuschel, 2008

Kuschel, Guillermo, 2008, Curculionoidea (weevils) of New Caledonia and Vanuatu: Basal families and some Curculionidae, Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle 197, pp. 99-250 : 178

Maleuterpes collinus n. sp.

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DESCRIPTION. — Derm dark brown, rostrum, antennae and legs reddish brown. Scaling dense, covering integument, moderately shiny, uniformly yellowish grey, here and there with some pinkish hue; setae short, recumbent; scutellum white.

Frons 1.3 x wider than intrascrobal space; setae short, appressed. Rotrum distinctly shorter and thicker than in other species, in lateral view tapering apicad, dorsally curved, lacking impression behind epistomal sulcus; epistome with blunt edge in front of shallow sulcus, this more or less interrupted in middle. Scape lacking scales. Prothorax weakly humped, less inflated than in other species. Striae fine, puncta not standing out as much as in other species. Interstriae several times wider than striae, sutural one slightly raised behind middle to a vague tubercle, 3 and 5 not noticeably more convex.

Length: 1.8 mm.

TYPE MATERIAL. — Holotype male, 1.8 x 0.9 mm, data as above, NZAC.

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — New Caledonia. 1 male, Col d’Amieu , 21.X.1978, on Cryptocarya, G. Kuschel .

ETYMOLOGY. — The Latin adjective ‘collínus’ stands for hanging about on hills.

REMARKS. — Abundantly different from the other species of New Caledonia in having a rather shiny scaling and a much more bulky rostrum.