Melanterius latipennis, Lea, 1928

Pinzón-Navarro, Sara V., Jennings, Debbie & Oberprieler, Rolf G., 2017, Host associations of Melanterius Erichson (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Cleogonini), with a diagnosis and delimitation of the genus and description of five new species, Zootaxa 4298 (1), pp. 1-77 : 29

The M. latipennis group

The members of this group also have the dorsal vestiture consisting of only minute and very sparse setae, but their procoxae are separated by a distinct, flat septum and the mesoventrite is usually flat to shallowly concave, not anteriorly raised (allowing the rostrum to be retracted deeper between the mesocoxae). This group includes species such as M. aratus Pascoe, 1885 , M. baridioides Lea, 1913 , M. bicalcaratus Lea, 1913 , M. elusus ( Casey, 1892) , M. interstitialis Lea, 1899 , M. latipennis Lea, 1928 , M. legitimus Lea, 1909 , M. maestus Lea, 1913 , M. oleosus Lea, 1928 , M. semiporosus Lea, 1908 and M. solitus Lea, 1899 . Host records were previously available only for M. latipennis .