Hemicolpus Heller 1895
Creators: name: Sanz-Veiga, Priscila A.
name: Savaris, Marcoandre
name: Leivas, Fernando W. T.
name: Medeiros, Alexandre Da Silva
name: Amorim, Felipe W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Curculionidae
Hemicolpus

description: Key to species of Hemicolpus
1. Pronotal midline carina strongly humped or raised, almost as high as long; Brazil ............ Hemicolpus heteromorphus
- Pronotal midline carina not humped, or only slightly raised.................................................... 2
2. Mesoventrite strongly excavated (Figs. 5a, b, 34a, b); second abdominal ventrite bearing a pair of tubercles (Figs. 19, 20, 46, 47)................................................................................................ 3
- Mesoventrite flat (not-excavated); second abdominal ventrite without tubercles.................................... 4
3. Inner glabrous triangular patch extending at maximum over a third of the area of the mesanepisternum (Fig. 35); metafemur not carinate (Fig. 36a); inner flange of the tibial apex almost as wide as long; premucro oriented 45° (Fig. 36b); penis with preapical constriction (Fig. 50); gonocoxite without unsclerotized stripe (Fig. 53); Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay ...................................................................................................... Hemicolpus abdominalis
- Inner glabrous triangular patch extending over almost half of the area of the mesanepisternum (Fig. 6); metafemur with carina at inner face (Fig.7a); inner flange of the tibial apex longer than wide; premucro oriented 90° (Fig. 7b); penis without preapical constriction (Fig. 23); gonocoxite with unsclerotized transverse stripe (Fig. 26); Brazil ......... Hemicolpus maragatensis
4. Body glabrous; elytral interstriae not raised; Brazil ........................................... Hemicolpus cubicus
- Body covered with scales; elytral interstriae raised.......................................................... 5
5. Body scales longer and narrower; anterior margin of metaventrite carinate and strongly excavated beneath.............................................................................................. Hemicolpus costaricensis
- Body scales shorter and broader; anterior margin of metaventrite not excavated.................................... 6
6. Anterior margin of metaventrite strongly declivous with weak depression; pronotum with distinct callosities; elytral interstriae 3 and 9 raised for most of their length; interstriae 5 raised at base; El Salvador and Mexico ........... Hemicolpus prenai
- Anterior margin of metaventrite strongly declivous without depression; pronotum with faint callosities; elytral interstriae 3 and 9 raised at the erect white setae and slightly beyond; interstriae 5 raised for most of its length; El Salvador and Mexico ........................................................................................ Hemicolpus randiae
description: Published as part of Sanz-Veiga, Priscila A., Savaris, Marcoandre, Leivas, Fernando W. T., Medeiros, Alexandre Da Silva & Amorim, Felipe W., 2023, A new seed-feeding species of Hemicolpus Heller, 1895 from south Brazil and redescription of Hemicolpus abdominalis Hustache, 1938 (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Conoderinae), pp. 301-327 in Zootaxa 5227 (3) on page 323, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5227.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7518718