Orthorhinus leseleuci Saunders & Jekel

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 : 198-199

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scientific name	Orthorhinus leseleuci Saunders & Jekel
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Figs 90, 144, 149, 152

Orthorhinus leseleuci Saunders & Jekel, 1855: 298 . DESCRIPTION. — The distinguishing characters are given in the key to species. The aedeagal apex has the lateral sinus more pronounced in this species (Fig. 149) than in O. cruciatus . Shapes of spermathecae seem to be unreliable, as individual variants can be rather striking.

TYPE MATERIAL. — Four syntype specimens present. Lectotype female, 14.5 x 5.5 mm, small red disk, ‘nov. spec. leseleuci Jekel [in Jekel’s writing], 760/ Orthorhinus, Nouv. Hébrides, Coll. Perroud’, MNHN. Paralectotypes: 2 females, Coll. Perroud; 1 female, Bowring Coll., BMNH .

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Vanuatu: Malekula , Epi , Ambrim, Tanna, Aneityum. 22 specimens .

HOSTPLANTS. — Adults seen feeding on coffee plants.

ETYMOLOGY. — The species is named after A. de Léséleuc who provided the material dealt with in the 1855 paper

of Saunders & Jekel.