Plumolepilius hectori Barrios-Izas 2020, new species
Creators: name: Barrios-Izás, Manuel A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Curculionidae
Plumolepilius
Plumolepilius hectori

description: Plumolepilius hectori Barrios-Izás, new species
(Figs. 49–58, 166)
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Diagnosis: Male. Length (1.38–1.75 mm). Width (0.94–1.13 mm). Ovate, cuticle rufescent. Vestiture of sparse recumbent ochreous scales, mesanepisternum and mesepimeron bare. Head and base of rostrum with sparse scales, scales not reaching the antennal insertions; frons conspicuously sunken between eyes, basal half rugose, apical half finely punctate; scrobes lateroventral, reaching the eyes margin; antenna inserted in middle of rostrum, scape as longer as desmomeres 1 to 3 together, desmomere 1 slightly longer than desmomere 2, both longer than demomeres 3 to 7, funiculus and antennal club setose. Pronotum oval, transverse, annulated anteriorly, punctate, ocular lobes with vibrissae. Elytra striate-punctate, interstices elevated, polished, surface before elytral declivity sinuous, humeri rounded, striae 10 complete. Abdominal ventrites punctate, punctures with setae, abdominal ventrites 1 and 2 fused on disk, abdominal ventrite 2 broader than abdominal ventrites 3 and 4 together. Metanepisternal suture swollen. Femora armed with a small spine, coxae without plumose scales. Pedon subparallel; temones 1.9X longer than pedon; genital sclerite minute and triangular.
Female. Length (1.38–1.81 mm). Width (0.88–1.13 mm). As for the male except smaller in size, rostrum with setae instead of scales, rostrum less humped than in males.
Geographic Distribution. Costa Rica (Alajuela, Heredia, Puntarenas and San José).
Derivation of the specific name. Patronym, named after Héctor E. Barrios Velazco, a weevil entomologist at University of Panama.
Material examined: 35♂♂, 23♀♀ (ASUCOB, CMNC, BMNH, MNCR, USNM). Holotype ♂ (MNCR): COS- TA RICA: Alajuela, E.B. San Ramon, R.B. San Ramon, 27km.N.& 8km.W. San Ramon, 10°13’30”N 84°35’30”W, 1050m, 15.VI.1997, R.Anderson, wet premontane forest litter 97-015 / Holotype ♂ Plumolepilius hectori Barrios- Izás sp. nov. Aedeagus extracted. Paratypes: same data as holotype except for 950m, 97-014 (3♂♂, CMNC). COS- TA RICA: Puntarenas, Monteverde, Estacion Biologica Monteverde, 10°18’53”N 84°47’49”W, 1650m, 10.VI.2001, R.Anderson, montane forest litter 2001-103 (2♂♂ 1♀, CMNC). Same data except for 1600m, 14.VI.2001, 2001- 113 (1♂, CMNC). Same data except for 1800m, cloud forest litter, 2001-102 (1♂ 1♀, CMNC). Same data except for 10°19’10”N 84°48’57”W, 1730m, 12.VI.2001, R. Anderson, cloud forest litter, 2001-107 (1♂, CMNC).Same data except for 10°19’10”N 84°48’57”W, 1800m, 13.VI.2001, R. Anderson, cloud forest litter, 2001-109, cloud forest litter (1♂, CMNC). COSTA RICA: Puntarenas, Monte Verde Biol. Sta, 1515m, 10°19.672’N 84°49.141’W, 10-17.VI.2001, S&J.Peck, ex. Cloud forest f.i.t., S&JP 2001-10 (2♂♂, CMNC). COSTA RICA: Heredia, 9km NE Vara Blanca, 1450- 1550m, 10°14’N 84°06’W, 15/WF/04/, 15 Apr 2005 -OET-ALAS transect (2♂♂ 1♀, CMNC). Same data except for 15/ WF/02/, 12 Mar 2005 (1♂ 2♀♀, CMNC, 1♂, USNM). Same data except for 15/WF/03/, 06 Mar 2005 (1♂ 1♀, CMNC, 1♂ 1♀, BMNH). Same data except for 1450-1550m, 15/WF/01, 12-15 Feb 2005 (1♂, CMNC). Same data except for 15/WF/01/, 19-22 Mar 2005 (2♀♀, CMNC). Same data except for 1500m, 14-20.II.2005, INBio-OET-ALAS transect (1♂ 1♀, CMNC, 1♂, ASUCOB). 09 Feb 2001, INBio-OET-ALAS transect, COSTA RICA: Heredia: 16km SSE La Virgen, 1050-1150m, 10°16’N 84°05’W / 9 de Febrero 2001, Transect, 11/B/BH/013 / Project ALAS INB0003212572 (1♂, CMNC). Same data except for 17 Marzo 2001 / 17 Marzo 2001, 11/WF/02 / Project ALAS INB0003212378 (1♂, CMNC). Same data except for 23 Febrero 2001 / 23 Febrero 2001, 11/WF/01 / INB0003213069 (1♂, CMNC). Same data except for 23 Febrero 2001 / 23 Febrero 2001, 11/WF/01 / INB0003213070 (1♂, CMNC). Same data except for 25 Marzo 2001 / 25 de Marzo 2001, 11/WF/03 / INB0003212579 (1♀, CMNC). COSTA RICA: Alajuela, E.B. San Ramon, R.B. San Ramon, 27km. N.& 8km. W. San Ramon, 10°13’30”N 84°35’30”W, 850-950m, 29.VI-6.VII.1999, R.Anderson, wet pre-montane forest RSA 1999-108 / n. genus near Lepilius, det. R.S. Anderson, 20 (1♂, CMNC). COSTA RICA: San Jose, km.117 Pan-Am Hwy, 19km.N.San Isidro 09°28’N 83°42’20”W, 1800m, 20.VI.1997, R.S. Anderson, cloud for. litter 97-021 (1♂ 6♀♀, CMNC, 1♀, ASUCOB, 1♀, BMNH, 1♀, MNCR). CORTA RICA: Pun- tarenas, Monte Verde, 1500-1580m, 9 May 1989, J. Ashe, R. Brooks, R. Leschen, ex., pitfall traps / Snow Entomol. Mus., Costa Rica exped. #088 (1♂, CMNC). Same data except for 1570m, 16 May 1989, ex., berlese (1♂, CMNC, 1♂, BMNH). COSTA RICA: Puntarenas, Monteverde, Estacion Biologica Monteverde, 10°19’10”N 84°47’49”W, 1650m, 13.VI.2001, R.Anderson, montane forest litter 2001-107 (1♂, CMNC, 1♂, MNCR). Same data except for 10°19’40”N 84°49’08”W, 1540m, 9.VI.2001, R.Anderson, montane forest litter 2001-101 (1♂, CMNC). Same data except for 10°18’53”N 84°47’49”W, 1650m, 13.VI.2001, 2001-111 (1♂, CMNC). COSTA RICA: Puntarenas. Mon- teverde, 1520m, 30.VI.1986. J.S. Ashe & R.M. Timm, sifted forest litter (1♂, CMNC). COSTA RICA: San Jose, km 117 Pan-Am Hwy, 19km.N.San Isidro 09°28’N 83°42’20”W, 1800m, 25.VI.1997, R.S. Anderson, cloud for. litter 97- 035 (1♀, CMNC). COSTA RICA: San Jose, km 117 Pan-Am Hwy, 19km.N.San Isidro 09°28’N 83°42’20”W, 1800m, 15.II.1998, R.S. Anderson, cloud for. litter (2♀♀, CMNC, 1♀, USNM).
description: Published as part of Barrios-Izás, Manuel A., 2020, Taxonomy of the weevil genus Plumolepilius Barrios-Izás & Anderson (Coleoptera Curculionidae: Molytinae: Conotrachelini): new species from Central America, pp. 151-192 in Zootaxa 4768 (2) on pages 164-165, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4768.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3779650