Heilipus rufipes Perty 1832
Creators: name: Vanin, Sergio Antonio
name: Bená, Daniela De Cassia
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Curculionidae
Heilipus
Heilipus rufipes

description: Heilipus rufipes Perty, 1832
Figs. (56─76)
Heilipus rufipes Perty, 1832: 75 (type probably in DMM, not examined); O'Brien & Wibmer, 1986: 147 (Cat.). Hilipus excultus Pacoe, 1889: 579: Kuschel 1955: 296 (Syn.);); O'Brien & Wibmer, 1986: 147 (Cat.).
Heilipus melanopus Perty, 1832: 76; Kuschel 1955: 296 (Syn);); O'Brien & Wibmer, 1986: 147 (Cat.).
Heilipus undabundus Boheman, 1836: 162; Kuschel 1955: 296 (Syn.); O'Brien & Wibmer, 1986: 147 (Cat.).
Description of genitalia and associate structures. Male genitalia (Figs. 68 ─72): median lobe of aedeagus (Figs. 68, 69) arcuate, slender, about 3 times as long as wide, largest width near basal fifth, sides subparallel in the basal 4/5 and then gradually converging to rounded anterior margin, asetose; apodemes about as long as median lobe; internal sac with mictrotrichiae but without large sclerites. Tegmen (Fig. 70, 71) apex of manubrium (or apodeme) bisinuate. Sternite IX (Fig. 72) with spiculum gastrale broad, evenly curved.
Female genitalia (Figs. 73 ─76) Sternite VIII (Fig. 76) Y-shaped, apodeme about as long as apical lobe, apodeme apex expanded and globose. Coxites short (Fig. 74), about 0.2 times as long as wide; styli cylindrical, setose, elongate, about 1.9 times as long as wide, articulated preapically; spermatheca (Fig. 75) with capsule well sclerotized, sickle-shaped, apex unciform, branches of similar size, gland lobe (ramus) about 2 times as long as duct lobe (collum), approximate from each other by distance about as equal as length of gland lobe, gland of spermatheca rounded. Bursa copulatrix without sclerites.
Material examined. BRAZIL. Ceará: São Benedito, III.2001, Nilberto Soares col., hospedeiro tronco de Persea gratissima var. bertranha; Heilipus rufipes Perty, 1832 G. H. Rosado Neto det. 2001 (1 male and 1 female dissected, MZSP; 3 exs., MZSP; 1 ex. CNCI; 16 exs., IACC). Goiás: no locality, no date, Pereira Magalhães col. (1 ex., MZSP). São Paulo: Campos de Jordão, Capivari, 1650 m, Dirings col., without date (3 exs., MZSP). Paraná: Curitiba, VII.1937, Claret leg. (8 exs., MZSP), same data, but X.1937 4 exs., MZSP). Santa Catarina: Rio Vermelho, II.1950, Dirings col. (1 ex., MZSP).
Geographic distribution. Bolívia (Wibmer & O'Brien 1986) and Brazil (states of Ceará, Goiás, São Paulo, Paraná and Santa Catarina.
Host plant. Avocado tree— Persea americana Mill. (Lauraceae), according to Lourenção et al (2003).
Remarks. Heilipus gibbus sp. nov. is very similar to H. catagraphus in appearance. Both share a similar pattern of coloration (Figs. 1, 2, 7 ─10 and 35, 36, 41, 42) and may be confused. Heilipus gibbus has been misidentified in collections and literature as H. catagraphus, most likely due to color resemblance. However, the two species can be easily distinguished by the following characteristics (characters of H. catagraphus given parenthetically). Base of rostrum strongly gibbous (Figs. 4, 12) (dorsum of rostrum regularly curved from apex to base, not gibbous) (Figs. 38, 44); it is noteworthy that a humped rostrum is not mentioned in the original description of H. catagraphus and in any other original description of the Heilipus species which occurs in Brazil. Tooth of profemur with inner edge rounded (Figs. 5, 13) (inner edge straight, Figs. 39, 45). Basal 2/3 of pronotal disk concave (Figs. 1, 7, 9) (2/3 of pronotal disk flattened, Figs. 35, 41).
Heilipus rufipes (Figs. 56, 57, 62, 63) is easily distinguished from H. catagraphus (Figs. 35, 36, 41, 42) and H. gibbus (Figs. 1, 2, 7,8, 9, 10) by the elytral color pattern, formed by an irregular and interrupted band of white scales on each elytral side and isolated patches of similar scales on disc. Other striking differences are the pronotum with rounded tubercles (Figs. 56, 62), the legs evenly dark reddish-brown (Figs. 56, 57, 62, 63), the sternite VIII Y-shaped, with a long strut (Fig.76), and different spermatheca with unciform apex (Fig. 75).
The stridulatory apparatus in H. gibbus sp. nov. is very similar to that described for H. odoratus Vani n & Gaiger (2005) by Nunes et al. 2009.
description: Published as part of Vanin, Sergio Antonio & Bená, Daniela De Cassia, 2015, A new species of Heilipus Germar (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Molytinae) associated with commercial species of Annonaceae in Brazil, and comments on other species of the genus causing damage to avocado trees in Brazil, pp. 541-556 in Zootaxa 3905 (4) on pages 549-552, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3905.4.7, http://zenodo.org/record/245289