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Stenocyphus Marshall. This 1922

Description

Key to species of Stenocyphus Marshall

1. Scaly vestiture iridescent green; scape reaching half of eyes; elytral tubercles covered with brown,stiff,long scale-like setae (Fig.2)............................................................................ Stenocyphus costae sp.nov.

1’. Scaly vestiture cream or tan, and opaque; scape exceeding posterior margin of eyes; elytral tubercles not covered with brown, stiff, long scale-like setae..................................................................................2

2. Elytral disc with one pair of large conical tubercles, slightly directed backwards, on posterior two thirds of interval 5, near declivity; scutellum suboval; protibiae without mucro and denticles; ovipositor with coarse setae along external sides of apical of baculi (see del Río & Lanteri,2013,figs.1, 4)............................................... S.bituberosus

2’. Elytral disc with more than one pair of tubercles;scutellum subtriangular; protibiae with mucro and denticles; ovipositor without coarse setae along sides of baculi...........................................................................3

3. Elytral disc with three pairs of tubercles, two on interval 3 and one on interval 5; the largest pair of tubercles slightly directed backwards, placed on posterior of interval 3, and followed by a small one; tubercle on interval 5, large but rounded and placed near declivity; penis flattenned towards apex in lateral view (see del Río & Lanteri, 2013, figs.2, 5)............................................................. S.sextuberosus

3’. Elytral disc with three series of conical tubercles along intervals 3, 5 and 7,from base to apex,with the largest tubercles placed near declivity of interval 3;penis not flattened towards apex in lateral view (see del Río & Lanteri,2013,figs.3,6)............................................. S.tuberculatus

Notes

Published as part of Río, María Guadalupe del & Lanteri, Analía Alicia, 2020, A new enigmatic species of broad-nosed weevil endemic to Brazil and its phylogenetic placement within the tribe Naupactini (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Entiminae), pp. 1-11 in Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia (Pap. Avulsos Zool., S. Paulo) (Pap. Avulsos Zool., S. Paulo) 60 (30) on page 6, DOI: 10.11606/1807-0205/2020.60.special-issue.30, http://zenodo.org/record/4615257

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Biodiversity

Family
Curculionidae
Genus
Stenocyphus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Coleoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Marshall. This
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Stenocyphus This, 1922 sec. Río & Lanteri, 2020