Theognete schaubeli Anderson 2010, new species
Creators: name: Anderson, Robert S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Curculionidae
Theognete
Theognete schaubeli

description: <b>46. <i>Theognete schaubeli</i> Anderson, new species</b> (Figures 135, 171, 206) <b>Diagnosis.</b> Size. Length, male, 2.64–3.06mm; female, 2.87–3.62mm. Width, male, 1.52–1.85mm; female, 1.63–1.97mm. Pronotum moderately cordate, virtually impunctate or with punctures very fine and shallow, scales sparse, appressed to suberect, apices finely plumose; flanks with shallow sulci composed of contiguous punctures. Elytra with scales sparse, suberect, clavate, linearly arranged on intervals, apices not overlapping. Strial regions lacking vestiture. Posterolateral area of elytra with series of 3–6 subcontiguous punctures. Aedeagus as in Fig. 171. <b>Geographical distribution</b>. México (Chiapas). <b>Natural history</b>. Collected from berlese extraction of oak-pine-liquidambar forest and wet oak-pine forest leaf litter at elevations from 1400–1500m. <b>Derivation of specific name</b>. Through his support of the Nature Discovery Fund at the Canadian Museum of Nature, this species is named after Alan W. Schaubel of Oakville, Ontario, Canada. <b>Material examined</b>. 29&amp;male;, 29&amp;female;&amp;female; (CMNC, CNCI, CWOB, ECOS). Holotype &amp;male; (CMNC): MÉXICO: Chiapas. Lagunas de Montebello, Cinco Lagos, 1500m, 21.IX.1991, R. Anderson, oak/pine <i>Liquidambar</i> forest, 91-115 / HOLOTYPE &amp;male;, <i>Theognete schaubeli</i> sp. nov., R.S. Anderson. Aedeagus extracted. Paratypes: MÉXICO. Chiapas. Lagunas de Montebello, Cinco Lagos, 1500m, 21.IX.1991, R. Anderson, oak/pine <i>Liquidambar</i> forest, 91-115 (10&amp;male;, 6&amp;female;&amp;female; CMNC). Lagunas de Montebello, Cinco Lagos, 1500m, 22.IX.1992, R. Anderson, liquidambar/oak/pine forest litter, 92-113 (6&amp;male;, 12&amp;female;&amp;female; CMNC, CWOB). Parque Nacional Lagunas de Montebello, Cinco Lagos, 1500m, 16º 06.072’ N, 91º 40.442’ W, 24.VII.2005, R. Anderson, mixed hardwood forest litter, 2005-006 (2&amp;male; CMNC). Municipio Trinitaria, Lagunas de Montebello, cerca de Cinco Lagos, 11.VII.1995, R. Jones, Hojarasca (1&amp;male;, 3&amp;female;&amp;female; ECOS). Municipio Trinitaria, Lagunas de Montebello, 11.VIII.1995, R. Jones, HR (1&amp;female; ECOS). Ocosingo, 1-2.VI.1969, Bright &amp; Campbell (1&amp;female; CNCI). Ocosingo (6 km S. W.), 1400m, 22.IX.1991. R. Anderson, wet oak/pine forest litter, 91-116 (1&amp;male; CMNC). Municipio La Trinitaria, Parque Nacional Lagos de Montebello, Cinco Lagos, 1500m, 16°06.072 N, 91°40.442 W, 20.VII.2007, R. Anderson, mixed liquidambar forest litter, 2007-023 (4&amp;male;, 5&amp;female;&amp;female; CMNC, ECOS). Mpio. La Trinitaria, Parque Nacional Lagos de Montebello, Lago Pojol, 1500m, 16°05.948 N, 91°40.275 W, 20.VII.2007, R. Anderson, mixed liquidambar forest litter 2007-024 (2&amp;male;, 1&amp;female; CMNC, ECOS). <b>Chorological relationships</b>. Sympatric with <i>T. zapatista</i> and <i>T. clavisetosa</i>.
description: Published as part of <i>Anderson, Robert S., 2010, A taxonomic monograph of the Middle American leaf-litter inhabiting weevil genus Theognete Champion (Coleoptera: Curculionidae; Molytinae; Lymantini) 2458, pp. 1-127 in Zootaxa 2458 (1)</i> on pages 53-54, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2458.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5316658