Baiocis perinimicus (Schedl), 1972

Beaver, Roger A., 2018, A review of the genus Baiocis Browne, 1962 (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Platypodinae), with new species, new synonymy and a key to males, Zootaxa 4434 (3), pp. 481-501 : 496

Baiocis perinimicus (Schedl)

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Platypus perinimicus Schedl, 1941: 358 .

Baiocis perinimicus ( Schedl): 1972 : 142.

Taxonomy: The senior author has examined the male lectotype, female ‘allotype’ and a male and a female paralectotypes (NMW), as well as a male specimen identified by Schedl, and possibly from the type series in BMNH. The BMNH specimen has the same data as a syntype mentioned by Schedl (1941) which is not in the NMW collection. It has been re-identified by Browne as Baiocis incisus (Sampson) , but is not that species. The male of B. perinimicus can be distinguished from the similar species, B. orientalis and B. unispineus by the characters of the frons and elytra given in the key.

Distribution: Recorded from Indonesia (Java and Sumatra) only.

Biology: Kalshoven (1960) records the species from Castanea argentea , C. javanica (Fagaceae) , Cinnamomum camphora (Lauraceae) , Eurya japonica (Theaceae) , and an unidentified tree possibly belonging to the Lauraceae . He briefly describes and ilustrates the gallery system.

Figures

FIGURES 1–9. Baiocis species males. 1‒3. B. crassiventris. 1, dorsal view; 2, lateral view head; 3, lateral view elytral apex. 4. B. anaticeps, lateral view elytral apex. 5‒6. B. perinimicus, elytral apex. 5, posterolateral view; 6, lateral view. 7‒8. B. incisus. 7, dorsal view elytral apex; 8, ventral view abdomen. 9. B. spiniventris, ventral view abdomen. Scale line = 1.0 mm (Fig. 1); 0.5 mm (Figs 2‒6, 9); 0.67 mm (Figs 7‒8).