Eusynnada, a resurrected genus of Ochyromerina (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Curculioninae: Tychiini), with description of a second species from India and Thailand
Author
Kojima, Hiroaki
Author
Ayri, Shaloo
Author
Ramamurthy, V. V.
text
Zootaxa
2016
4066
4
469
476
journal article
51172
10.11646/zootaxa.4066.4.7
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1175-5326
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Eusynnada canariumi
sp. nov.
(
Figs. 3, 4
,
7, 8
,
13
,
24–30
)
Description.
Male. Length:
4.4–4.8 mm
; width: 1.9–2.0 mm.
Male. Very similar to
E. plaxioides
except derm concolorous reddish brown except antennae and tarsi slightly paler; rostrum slightly shorter than pronotum (9: 10); antennae inserted at middle in female; prothorax 1.3 times as wide as long; elytra 1.6 times as long as wide; front tibiae slightly dentate ventrally near apex; aedeagal body truncate at caudal margin, apodemes short, about 1/3 of aedeagal body.
Female. Resembles male except rostrum longer than pronotum (13–15: 10); antennae inserted at middle of rostrum.
Type
series.
Holotype
: male, Doi Suthep-Doi Pui,
Thailand
,
4–7.vii.1995
, H. Kojima (TUA).
Paratypes
,
3 males
and
2 females
, same data as the
holotype
;
1 male
and
5 females
, Port Blair, S. Andaman,
India
,
16.xii.1991
, Venna (
NPC
) [teneral].
Etymology.
This species is named after the plant genus
Canarium
on which weevils were collected.
Biology.
Weevils were collected from
Canarium euphyllum
Kurz. (Burseraceae)
on Andaman Island. Weevils were also captured on a flowering tree probably belonging to
Neolamarckia
sp. (
Rubiaceae
) in
Thailand
by using an insect net with a long handle, which is about
6 m
in length.
Distribution.
Andaman Island (
India
),
Thailand
.
Comment.
This new species is easily separable from the
type
species by the coloration.