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

description: <b>37. <i>Theognete montana</i> Anderson, new species</b> (Figures 8, 149, 184, 219) <b>Diagnosis.</b> Size. Length, male, 3.85–4.78mm; female, 3.65–4.75mm. Width, male, 2.14–2.70mm; female, 1.80–2.53mm. Pronotum strongly cordate, with scales suberect to erect, clumped at anterolateral margin and on either side of midline at midlength; distinct glabrous areas present. Elytra elongate, longer than wide, sides subparallel for greater part of length, scales simple, erect, not arched or recurved at apex, variously clumped in multiple rows over elytral disk; strial regions with distinct, long, fine, hair-like scales but striae not impressed. Lateral area of elytra with striae clearly indicated by linearly arranged, fine, hair-like scales, posterolateral area of elytra with a series of contiguous, individually indistinct punctures. Abdominal ventrite 5 impresssed apically in female, not so in male. Aedeagus as in Fig. 184. <b>Geographical distribution</b>. México (Chiapas). <b>Natural history</b>. Collected from berlese extraction of cloud forest and wet oak forest leaf litter at elevations of 2700–2910m. <b>Derivation of specific name</b>. Named from the Latin <i>montanus</i>, meaning of the mountains, in reference to the occurrence of this species at high elevations. <b>Material examined</b>. 85&amp;male;, 36&amp;female;&amp;female; (CMNC, CNCI, CWOB, ECOS, USNM). Holotype &amp;male; (CMNC): MÉXICO: Chiapas. Cerro Huitepec (Pico), ca. 5km W. San Cristóbal, 2750m., 15.IX.1991, R. Anderson, cloud forest litter, 91-101 / HOLOTYPE &amp;male;, <i>Theognete montana</i> sp. nov., R. S. Anderson. Aedeagus extracted. Paratypes: MÉXICO. Chiapas. Cerro Huitepec (Pico), (ca. 5 km W. San Cristóbal), 2750m, 15.IX.1991, R. Anderson, cloud forest litter, 91-101 (28&amp;male;, 12&amp;female;&amp;female; CMNC). Cerro Huitepec (Pico), (ca. 5 km W. San Cristóbal), 2750m, 18.IX.1991, R. Anderson, cloud forest litter, 91-107 (21&amp;male;, 8&amp;female;&amp;female; CMNC). Cerro Huitepec, ca. 5 km W. San Cristobal, 2700m, 14.IX.1992, R. Anderson, wet oak forest litter, 92-100 (4&amp;male;, 3&amp;female;&amp;female; CMNC). Cerro Tzontehuitz (Pico), (ca. 10km N.E. San Cristóbal), 2910m, 16.IX.1991, R. Anderson, cloud forest litter, 91-104 (6&amp;male;, 1&amp;female; CMNC, CWOB). Municipio Chamula, Cerro Tzontehuitz, 15.VII.1984, R. Jones, Bosque mesophilo (5&amp;male; ECOS). Mt. Tzontehuitz, 9500', 27.V.1969, J.M. Campbell (1&amp;male; CNCI). Mt. Tzontehuitz, 9500', 19.V.1969, J.M. Campbell (5&amp;male; CNCI). Municipio San Cristóbal de las Casas, Reserva Huitepec, 16º 45.84 N, 92º 40.70 W, 2300m, 15.VII.2005, R.Anderson, mixed oak forest litter, 2005-001 (1&amp;female; CMNC). Mt. Tzontehuitz, 9500', 19.V.1969, J.M. Campbell (2&amp;male;, 1&amp;female; CNCI). Cerro Tzontehuitz (Pico), (ca. 10 km N.E. San Cristóbal), 2910m, 16.IX.1991, R. Anderson, cloud forest litter, 91-104, (6&amp;male;, 4&amp;female;&amp;female; CMNC, CWOB). Municipio Chamula, Cerro Tzontehuitz, 15.VII.1994, R. Jones, bosque mesófilo (10&amp;male;, 8&amp;female;&amp;female; ECOS). Municipio Tenejapa, Cerro Tzontehuitz, 16º 48’40.8” N 92º 35’02.4” W, 2800m, 29.VII.2005, J.L. Cozar, mixed cloud forest litter (3&amp;male;, 3&amp;female;&amp;female; CMNC). Municipio Tenejapa, Cerro Tzontehuitz, 16º 48’47” N 92º 34’24.8” W, 2677m, 29.VII.2005, R.Anderson, mixed oak forest litter, 2005-014 (1&amp;male; CMNC). Municipio Tenejapa, Cerro Tzontehuitz, 16º 48’40.8” N 92º 35’02.4” W, 2864m, 29.VII.2005, R.Anderson, mixed cloud forest litter, 2005-014 (1&amp;male; CMNC). Municipio San Cristóbal, Reserva Huitepec, 7.IV.1994, R. Jones (7&amp;male;, 10&amp;female; ECOS, USNM). Municipio San Cristóbal, Reserva Huitepec, 8.VIII.1995, B. Gómez (1&amp;female; ECOS). Municipio San Cristóbal, Reserva Huitepec, 14.II.1996, L. Ruiz (1&amp;female; ECOS). Municipio San Cristóbal, Reserva Huitepec, 9/ 10.VI.2004, J.L. Cozar (1&amp;male;, 1&amp;female; ECOS). Municipio San Cristóbal de las Casas, Huitepec-Ocotal, Cerro La Cruz, 12.VI.2006, J.L. Cozar, cloud forest (2&amp;male; CMNC). <b>Chorological relationships</b>. Sympatric with <i>T. scopulus</i>, <i>T. huitepec</i>, <i>T. maziaki</i> and <i>T. campbelli</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 44-45, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2458.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5316658