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Sennius amazonicus Pic 1929, comb n.

Description

Sennius amazonicus (Pic, 1929), comb n.

Bruchus amazonicus Pic, 1929a: 26 (description, distribution).

Acanthoscelides amazonicus: Blackwelder, 1946: 758 (combination, catalog); Udayagiri & Wadhi, 1989: 36 (catalog). Sennius amazonicus: Santos et al., 1997: 883 –886 (host, biology).

Type material (1, MNHN): Lectotype male with labels: 1, “D r Hahnel. / Amazonas / (Staudinger.)” “ type ” “ amazonicus / n sp” “ Holotype ” “ amazonicus / Pic / det. 70 / J. M. Kingsolver” “ Lectotype / Bruchus amazonicus Pic, 1929 / design. J. H. Viana”.

Remark. In the original description, Pic does not indicate the number of specimens studied. One specimen was received from MNHN, here designated as a lectotype, with location data identical to what was given in the original description (Amazones) and Pic’s labels " type " and " amazonicus n sp". Santos et al. (1997) cited Acanthoscelides amazonicus as belonging Sennius but no paper was found with this transference. Here it is formally transferred to Sennius, as Sennius amazonicus (NEW COMBINATION), due mainly to the following characters: hind femur with one tooth at inner ventral margin, and internal sac of male genitalia with hinge sclerites.

Notes

Published as part of Viana, Jéssica Herzog, 2016, Nomenclatural changes and lectotype designations in the seed-beetle genus Sennius Bridwell: with the synonymization of Megasennius Whitehead & Kingsolver (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Bruchinae), pp. 249-260 in Zootaxa 4175 (3) on page 251, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4175.3.4, http://zenodo.org/record/160654

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
MNHN, NEW, COMBINATION
Family
Chrysomelidae
Genus
Sennius
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Coleoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Pic
Species
amazonicus
Taxonomic status
comb. nov.
Taxon rank
species
Type status
lectotype
Taxonomic concept label
Sennius amazonicus (Pic, 1929) sec. Viana, 2016

References

  • Pic, M. (1929 a) Nouveautes diverses. Melanges Exotico Entomologiques, 53, 1 - 36.
  • Blackwelder, R. E. (1946) Checklist of the coleopterous insects of Mexico, Central America, the West Indies and South America. Bulletin of the United States National Museum, 185, 751 - 763. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.5479 / si. 03629236.185.4
  • Udayagiri, S. & Wadhi, S. R. (1989) Catalog of Bruchidae. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute, 45, 1 - 301.
  • Santos, G. P. N., Zanuncio, S. L., de Junior Assis, S. L. & Zanuncio, J. C. (1997) Danos por Sennius amazonicus, Sennius sp. e Amblycerus sp. (Coleoptera: Bruchidae) em semillas de Sclerolobium sp. (Leguminosae). Revista de biologia tropical, 45 (2), 883 - 886.