Curculio quincunx (Marshall)

Pelsue, Frank W., 2010, Description of a neotype and designation of four lectotypes from Borneo in the genus Curculio (Coleoptera: Curculionidae), Zootaxa 2384, pp. 44-52 : 49

Curculio quincunx (Marshall)

Balaninus quincunx Marshall 1919: 386

Type material: Lectotype 1 female: “ Sarawak, Quoop / IV-1914 / Coll. G. E. Bryant / BMNH/ ‘Type / H.T.’ (BM red-rimmed type disc)” and “ Balaninus / quincunx / TYPE female Mshl.” and “ G.Bryant Coll. /1919 147”./ and “ LECTOTYPE Curculio quincunx (Marshall) des. Pelsue 2009 ”. ( BMNH)

Diagnosis: Female 4.5 mm long; derm piceous; rostrum continuous with frons, more than half body length; ventral pronotum with macula of clavate, cretaceous scales with lateral arms reaching midpoint of eye and not visible in dorsal view, basal margin with lateral macula, with median margin reaching mesepimeron, densely clothed with cretaceous scales; metasternum with posterior macula of cretaceous scales; elytral interval 4, scutellum piceous; elytra with 2 short vittae on interval 1 of cretaceous scales distad of scutellum, 3 small macula on intervals 2, 3, 7 in apical 1/3, two cretaceous vittae on interval 1 along crosshatch setae on apex; legs piceous, metafemur with small tooth; venter clothed with cretaceous scales.

Differential diagnosis: This species looks similar to C. analis and C. imitator , but can be distinguished from both species by the short median vittae on elytral interval 1 distad of scutellum and the 3 macula past the mid point on intervals 2, 3 and 7.

Distribution: Malaysian Borneo: Sarawak, Mt. Matang and Quop.