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Bonthaina solitaria Heller

Description

Bonthaina solitaria Heller

Bonthaina solitaria Heller, 1900: 21–22. Type locality: SW Sulawesi, Mt. Lompobatang.

Description. Holotype (Fig. 11a). Length. Pronotum plus elytron 4.08 mm. Integument ferruginous; sparsely clothed with recumbent, ovate, greenish-iridescent scales. Head with sulcus separating rostral base curved. Eyes asymmetrically convex, drawn posteriad. Rostrum shorter than wide (0.84 X), sides subparallel; dorsum swollen. Pronotum 1.08 X longer than wide; scabrous-nodulate, medially with shallow impression. Elytra subovate 1.39 X as long as wide; dorsally somewhat flattened; intervals with scattered granules each bearing an upcurved scale; near declivity intervals 1, 3, and 5 with small tubercles. Genitalia. Penis (Fig. 11b) with sides of body subparallel to rounded apex. Apodeme [tip broken] at least as long as body of penis, attached to body with flexible loop. Endophallus long, with flagellum.

Material examined. Holotype male: INDONESIA, S-Sulawesi: Mt. Lompobatang, X-XI.1895, leg. Drs. Sarasin; labels (Fig. 11c); condition: fair, formerly pinned through right elytron; genitalia in glycerol in microtube; DNA extraction ARC4032 (GenBank # OR557447) (SMTD).

Notes

Published as part of Riedel, Alexander, 2024, Taxonomic review of weevils of the tribe Celeuthetini, mainly from Sundaland, Sulawesi and the Lesser Sunda Islands (Coleoptera, Curculionidae, Entiminae), pp. 1-75 in Zootaxa 5464 (1) on pages 22-23, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5464.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/11612810

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
SMTD
Family
Curculionidae
Genus
Bonthaina
Kingdom
Animalia
Material sample ID
ARC4032
Order
Coleoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Heller
Species
solitaria
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype

References

  • Heller, K. M. (1900) Neue Kafer von Celebes. IV. Abhandlungen und Berichte des Koniglichen Zoologischen und Anthropologisch- Ethnographischen Museums zu Dresden, 9 (5), 1 - 46, 1 pl.