Curiades boisduvali ( Boheman 1840 )

Río, Guadalupe Del & Lanteri, Analia A., 2012, Redescription of the genus Curiades Pascoe 1880 (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Entiminae: Naupactini), a potential mimic of Mutillidae from Brazil, Zootaxa 3570, pp. 82-88 : 86

Curiades boisduvali ( Boheman 1840)

Platyomus boisduvali Boheman in Schoenherr 1840: 163

Curiades boisduvali ; Pascoe 1880: 421 (overlooked by Taschenberg in Heyne & Taschenberg 1907: 225)

Type material studied. Holotype female from Brazil (“ Brasilia interior”), seen at the type collection of the Naturhistoriska Riksmuseet ( NHRS).

Other material examined. Brazil. no loc ( MZSP: 2; USNM: 10). Río de Janeiro: Río de Janeiro ( CWOB: 1); Corcovado, Río Guanabara, 23-X-1953, Zajeiro col. ( MNRJ: 4); 2-XII-1957, Seabra & Alvarenga col ( MNRJ: 6); X-1961, Alvarenga & Seabra col. ( MNRJ: 1); 18-10-1974, Alvarenga & Seabra col. ( MNRJ: 1).

Redescription. Body medium-sized (female 11.2–11.8 mm long; male 9.0– 9.6 mm long) ( Figs. 1–2 ). Integument dark, rugose, with microsculpture. Vestiture composed of round, imbricate scales and very long, coarse, erect setae on dorsum; color mostly black except yellow-cream apex of rostrum, legs, elytral maculae and venter. Rostrum covered with yellow scales and very long yellow setae on sides; frons and vertex black, with very long black setae surrounding superior margin of eyes; antennal scape covered with dense yellow scales and stiff brown setae, funicle with cream seta like scales and stiff verticilate setae; pronotum black, with fine medial line of yellow scales on posterior half and very long black setae, mainly on anterior margin; elytra mostly black, with two oblique, subtriangular maculae of yellow scales on anterior half, from suture to 7° interval; elytral setae very long, mostly black, and yellow on subtriangular maculae and on two small yellow spots near apex; legs densely covered with creamy scales, and pale, long, suberect, stiff setae; femora and tibiae with a dark spot on external face; venter mostly covered with dense yellow-creamy scales, and long, suberect, stiff setae; central surface of ventrites 3–5 black, almost lacking setae. Other morphological features as described for the genus ( Figs. 1–11 ). Morphometrics (N=6): Rostrum: LR/WRa 0.97–0.98; LR/WRb 0.86–0.89. Antennae: LB/LA 3.27–3.47; LC/WC 2–2.11. Pronotum: WP/LP 1.22–1.28. Elytra: LE/WE 1.48–1.53.

Figures

FIGURES 1 – 4. Curiades boisduvali, female: (1) habitus, dorsal; (2) habitus, lateral; (3) head and rostrum, dorsal; (4) head and rostrum, lateral. Scale line: 1 mm.

FIGURES 5 – 11. Antennae, ventrites, female and male terminalia of Curiades boisduvali: (5) left antenna; (6) ventrites; (7) sternite VIII; (8) ovipositor, ventral view; (9) spermatheca; (10) aedeagus, lateral view; (11) aedeagus, terminal portion of tube, ventral view. Scale line: 1 mm; spermatheca 0.5 mm.