Plekocheilus (Aeropictus) succineoides subsp. succineoides
Creators: name: Borrero, Francisco J.
name: Breure, Abraham S. H.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Stylommatophora
Orthalicidae
Plekocheilus
Plekocheilus succineoides
Plekocheilus (aeropictus) succineoides succineoides

description: Plekocheilus (Aeropictus) succineoides succineoides (Petit de la Saussaye, 1840)
(Figs 5 G–L, 9B)
Bulimus succineoides Petit de la Saussaye 1840: 75. Type locality: “les environs de Bogotá.” Syntype MNHN 21884. Plekocheilus succinoides [sic] (Petit); Richardson 1995: 321 (references, synonymy; see remarks).
Bulimus latilabris Pfeiffer 1855a: 7. Type locality: Santa Fé de Bogota. Lectotype BMNH 1975127 (Breure 1979). Plekocheilus latilabris (Pfeiffer); Richardson 1995: 316 (references). New synonymy.
Material. Antioquia, Alto de Belmira [approx. 3100 m], in bromeliad, J.J. Estrada leg./2000: UAM; Boyacá, Páramo de la Rusia, 3400–3600 m: ZMA (A.M. Cleef leg.); Páramo Vado Hondo, 3600 m: ZMA (A.M. Cleef leg.); Km 78, 1 km NE of Laguna Colorada (Breure 1977); Páramo de La Sarna, between Sogamoso and Bado Hondo, ~ 3500 m (Breure 1977); Páramo de La Sarna, 5 km NE Laguna de Tota (Breure 1977); Quebrada Chuza, between Páramo de Palacio and Páramo de Chingaza, 3600 m, J.E. Guevara leg./1978: RMNH; 10 km NE Villa de Leyva, 2350 m, Breure leg./1975: RMNH; S of Villa de Leyva, small gorge near quarry, 2350 m, Hausdorf leg./2000: ZMH 4117; Villa de Leyva, oak forest near Manantiales de Iguaque in Vereda Capilla I, W slope, 2600 m, Hausdorf leg./2000: ZMH 4200; Iguaque Reserve (Medina and Arias 2007); Muzo: UMMZ 147730 (ex Rolle); Cauca, Rio Cauca valley: SMF 45635; Cundinamarca, Páramo de Sumapáz, H. von Prahl leg./1979: UVZ 81135; Neusa (60 km NW Bogota), ~ 3500 m, leg./1985: RMNH; Mosquera, near Laguna La Herrera, on Opuntia sp. cacti, O. Rangel leg./1981: ICNB; Mosquera, P. Creutzberg leg./1968: RMNH; Páramo Laguna Verde, 3600 m, Cleef leg.: ZMA; Páramo de Palacio, 3100–3200 m, H. Sturm leg.: SMF 245384; Páramo de Palacio, 6 km SE chalk mine, 3500 m, T. van der Hammen leg.: ZMA; Páramo de Palacio, Laguna de Siecha, 3700 m, Cleef leg.: RMNH; Páramo de Palacio, 3 km S Laguna de Siecha, 3600–3650 m, J. Hernandez leg./1958: FMNH 114111 (as P. calliostoma); Páramo de Palacio, Hoya Quebrada Chuza, Cleef leg./1972: ZMA; Lagunas de Buitrago, 3600 m, Cleef leg.: RMNH; Páramo between Cogua and San Cayetano, around Laguna Seca (observed by Cleef teste Breure 1977, not seen); Finca Chueca near Facatativá, ca. 40 km W Bogotá, 2700 m, H. Löscher leg.: SMF 242140 (not seen); Facatativá, 2700 m: ZMUZ 511645 (not seen); Páramo de Monserrate, Sturm leg.: SMF 245385; Páramo between Monserrate and La Calera, 3200 m, Sturm leg.: SMF 245386; mountainside W of Laguna Muña, SW of Bogotá, 2600–2700 m, van der Hammen leg.: ZMA; Sitio Tequendama I, Soacha: ZMA; La Calera, Escuela de Caballería (Medina pers. comm.); La Calera, just NE Bogotá, Haught leg.: USNM 488855; Plain of Bogotá [= Sabana de Bogotá]: ANSP 66435 (ex T. Bland); Guasca, N Bogotá: Femorale 52256; Bogotá: BMNH Acc. no. 1829 (Cuming Colln), ZMUZ 511643 [not seen], CM 42432 (W. Newcomb leg., G.H. Clapp Colln), CMC C13492 (ex Fulton), FMNH 414, FMNH 158889, RMNH, SMF 21611, SMF 242139, USNM 713045, USNM 316121, USNM 316122, UMMZ 147729 (ex Tomlin & Hno.Apolinar María), USNM 124663 (partim); Near Bogotá: CM 90284 (ex Da Costa, leg./1900). “Near Bogotá, Colombia. Extinct?” (Abbott 1989).?, Colombia: BMNH 1894.12.19.7, FMNH 31063; “ US Colombia:” USNM 532643(ex Fulton, as Auris (Eurytus) calliostoma).
Altitudinal range. 2350–3750 m.
Remarks. Breure (1978) was inconclusive about the taxonomic position of P. latilabris (Pfeiffer, 1855). Having seen now ample material, we synonymize this taxon with P. succineoides (Petit de la Saussaye, 1840).
The record from Cauca remains puzzling, as it is based on one lot only and may have been mislabeled. Also a record from Peru (Dept. Cajamarca, SW Chachapoyas and Cajamarca, G.E. Mason leg., SMF 21612 (Breure 1977)) has not been confirmed by further material and has to be viewed with great caution. This taxon is rather variable in shape, but may be characterized by the interrupted subsutural brown band and the light-colored oblique, axial stripes on the dorsal side of the last whorl. It has been found on and among cacti (Opuntia sp.).
description: Published as part of Borrero, Francisco J. & Breure, Abraham S. H., 2011, The Amphibulimidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Orthalicoidea) from Colombia and adjacent areas, pp. 1-59 in Zootaxa 3054 on pages 16-17, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.278895