Theognete maziaki Anderson 2010, new species
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Description
39. Theognete maziaki Anderson, new species (Figures 166, 201)
Diagnosis. Size. Length, male, 3.63–3.81mm. Width, male, 2.30–2.34mm. As for T. jonesi except vestiture not as dense, body form not as elongate. Aedeagus as in Fig. 201.
Geographical distribution. México (Chiapas).
Natural history. Collected from berlese extraction of leaf litter in a small canyon on the slopes of Cerro Tzontehuitz at an elevation of 2740m.
Derivation of specific name. Through her support of the Nature Discovery Fund at the Canadian Museum of Nature, this species is named after Leon Stephen Maziak of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, as a gift from Donna E. Maziak.
Material examined. 2♂ (CMNC, ECOS). Holotype ♂ (CMNC): MÉXICO: Chiapas. Municipio Chamula, Cerro Tzontehuitz, 15.VII.1994, R. Jones / HOLOTYPE ♂, Theognete maziaki sp. nov. R.S. Anderson. Aedeagus extracted. Paratype: MÉXICO. Chiapas. Municipio Chamula, Cerro Tzontehuitz, 15.VII.1994, R. Jones (1♂, CMNC).
Chorological relationships. Sympatric with T. montana and T. scopulus.
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Additional details
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- CMNC , CMNC, ECOS
- Event date
- 1994-07-15
- Family
- Curculionidae
- Genus
- Theognete
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Coleoptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Anderson
- Species
- maziaki
- Taxonomic status
- sp. nov.
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype
- Verbatim event date
- 1994-07-15
- Taxonomic concept label
- Theognete maziaki Anderson, 2010