Tylodinus lum Luna-Cozar & Anderson & Jones & León-Cortés 2014, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Luna-Cozar, Jesús
name: Anderson, Robert S.
name: Jones, Robert W.
name: León-Cortés, Jorge L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Curculionidae
Tylodinus
Tylodinus lum

description: 18. Tylodinus lum Luna-Cozar, sp. nov.
(Figures 60–61, 111, 135)
Diagnosis. Length male, 3.8–4.0 mm, female, 3.5–3.7 mm. Width male, 1.7–1.9 mm, female 1.5–1.8 mm. Head with light brown scales, vertex with patch of yellow scales, rostrum with yellow scales, moderately dense, surface with deep punctures. Metasternum, concave, clothed with setigerous scales. Male abdomen with ventrite 1 concave, ventrite 2 longer than 3–4 combined, weakly concave, ventrite 5 as long as ventrite 1; female lacking projection on ventrite 5. Male genitalia (Figure 111) with the median lobe in lateral view strongly curved, stout; in ventral view as long as half apodeme length.
Geographic distribution. México (Chiapas).
Habitat and elevation. Specimens were collected from leaf litter in high elevation cloud forest between 2000–2750 m.
Derivation of specific name. Noun in apposition: after the Tzotzil word lum, meaning earth
Material examined. Total 8 males, 13 females. Holotype male (CMNC): México: Chiapas, San Cristóbal de las Casas, Cerro Huitepec (pico) 5 km W San Cristóbal, elev. 2750 m (16°44'33''N, 92°41'38.4''W), 15.ix.1991, coll. R. S. Anderson. Paratypes: México: Chiapas, Coapilla, 7.3 km NE Coapilla, elev. 2200 m (17°10'59.88''N, 93°7'.12''W), 12.vii.2007, coll. M. G. Branstetter — 1 male (CMNC); Huixtán, San Cristobal de las Casas Airport, elev. 2350 m (16°41'25.08''N, 92°31'48''W), 25.vii.2005, coll. R. S. Anderson — 1 female (CMNC); Bazoom, elev. 2450 m (16°44'19.0''N, 92°29'18.3''W), 9.vii.2003, coll. R. S. Anderson — 1 male (CMNC); San Cristóbal de las Casas, 21 km W San Cristóbal, elev. 2000 m (16°44'32.6''N, 92°48'43.6''W), 20.ix.1991, coll. R. S. Anderson — 1 female (CMNC); Cerro Huitepec (pico) 5 km W San Cristóbal, elev. 2750 m (16°44'33''N, 92°41'38.4''W), 15.ix.1991, coll. R. S. Anderson — 1 male (CMNC); Reserva Huitepec, elev. 2500 m (16°44'42.7''N, 92°40'52''W), 24.i.1995, coll. R. Jones, B. Gomez — 1 male (ECOS); same locality, 20.vi.1995, coll. R. Jones — 2 females (UAQM); same locality, 14.xi.1995, coll. B. Gómez, M. Girón — 2 females (ECOS); same locality, 17.vi.2004, coll. J. L. Cozar, M. Girón — 1 female (ECOS); same locality, 3.vii.2006, coll. J. L. Cozar — 1 female (ECOS); same locality, 2400 m (16°44.795’N 92°41.050’W), coll. R. S. Anderson — 1 female (CMNC); same locality, 2450 m (16°45’84”N 92°10’70”W), 11.vii.2003, coll. R. S. Anderson — 2 females (CMNC); same locality, 2300 m, 15.vii.2005, coll. R. S. Anderson — 1 female (CMNC); same locality, 2480 m (16.75018°N, 92.68284°W), 29.v.2008, LLAMA (Wa-A-05-2-40) — 1 male (CMNC); same locality, 2480 m (16.75100°N, 92.68270°W), 29.v.2008, LLAMA (Wa-A-05-2-19) — 1 female (CMNC).
description: Published as part of Luna-Cozar, Jesús, Anderson, Robert S., Jones, Robert W. & León-Cortés, Jorge L., 2014, A taxonomic monograph of the genus Tylodinus Champion (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Cryptorhynchinae: Tylodina) of Chiapas, Mexico, pp. 1-63 in Zootaxa 3788 (1) on page 34, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3788.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4913761