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Acanthoscelides atrosignatus

  • 1. Department of Biology, University of San Diego, 5998 Alcalá Park, San Diego, CA 92110, USA
  • 2. Laboratório de Sistemática e Bioecologia de Coleoptera, Departamento de Zoologia & Universidade Federal do Paraná, Caixa Postal 19020, 81531 - 980, Curitiba, Paraná, Brasil.

Description

Acanthoscelides atrosignatus (Pic, 1935). Combination confirmed. Neotype designated.

Bruchus atrosignatus Pic, 1935: p. 65. From label: “ Costa Rica, Farm la Caja, 8 km westl. San José; 15.IV.– 20.VI.1924. H. Schmidt leg.” (Pic, 1935, p. 65). Type(s) destroyed in World War II in Hamburg Museum.A Neotype is hereby designated for a specimen identified by Pic in the NMNH with the labels “Turrialba / Costa Rica; voir / atrosignatus / Pic; G115; det. As near / atrosignatus / by Pic / det. / J.M. Kingsolver; Not the Type. / Type probably destroyed / in Hamburg Museum / during world War 2; Acanthoscelides / (pertinax / group) / det. 74 / J.M. Kingsolver”.

Acanthoscelides atrosignatus: Blackwelder (1946), p. 758 (catalog, comb. nov.); Wilcox (1975), p. 5 (catalog); Johnson & Kingsolver (1981), p. 414 (catalog); Udayagiri & Wadhi (1989), p. 36 (catalog).

Notes

Published as part of MORSE, GEOFFREY E. & RIBEIRO-COSTA, CIBELE STRAMARE, 2024, New and Confirmed Combinations of New World Bruchinae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) with a List of incertae sedis Species, pp. 57-82 in Zootaxa 5543 (1) on page 69, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5543.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/14385028

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References

  • Pic, M. (1935) Neue Bruchidae (Col.). Entomologischer Anzeiger Wien, 15, 65 - 66.
  • 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, 551 - 763. https: // doi. org / 10.5479 / si. 03629236.185.4
  • Wilcox, J. A. (1975) Family 130. Bruchidae, the pea and bean weevils. In: Checklist of the Beetles of North and Central America and the West Indies. Flora & Fauna Publications, Gainesville, Florida, 10 pp.
  • Johnson, C. D. & Kingsolver, J. M. (1981) Checklist of the Bruchidae (Coleoptera) of Canada, United States, Mexico, Central America and the West Indies. The Coleopterists' Bulletin, 35 (4), 409 - 422.
  • Udayagiri, S. & Wadhi, S. R. (1989) Catalog of Bruchidae. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute, 45, 1 - 300.