Curculio bullabrevis Pelsue and Zhang, new species
Creators: name: Pelsue, Frank W.
name: Zhang, Runzhi
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2003
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Curculionidae
Curculio
Curculio bullabrevis

description: Curculio bullabrevis Pelsue and Zhang, new species   
(Figs. 27–28, 57–59)  
 Holotype. China. Motuo female[China / Xizang /Motuo/ 2,000–2,400 m / 14–17 October 1952 / Y. Han] (IZAS).   
 Description. Female: length: 5.5 mm (n ¼ 1). width: 2.2 mm (n ¼ 1). Head: Moderate-sized; punctures small, clothed with short, narrow, cinerous scales; frons 0.15 (n ¼ 1) as broad as head across eyes, clothed with longer, narrow, cinerous scales; small interocular fovea. Rostrum: length: 4.6 mm (n ¼ 1); 0.84 as long as body; cylindrical; almost straight to abruptly deflected apex; glabrous, apuncatate except for base with few small punctures; scrobe lateral; scape inserted in basal half. Antennae: length: scape 1.2 mm. funiculus: segment one 0.4 mm, two 0.4 mm, three 0.3 mm, four 0.25 mm, five 0.25 mm, six 0.2 mm, seven 0.2 mm, club 0.5 mm (n ¼ 1); funicle 2.0 mm; scape 0.6 as long as funicle; club small-sized, not as long as funicular segments 5–7; scape not longer than funicular segments 1–4. Thorax: length: 1.3 mm (n ¼ 1). width: 1.6 mm (n ¼ 1); 0.81 as long as broad; significantly narrower than base of elytra; disc margins parallel to abrupt rounding to constriction, clothed with narrow, elongate, cinerous scales, flat in lateral view; pleuron clothed with clavate white and testaceous scales mixed; mesosternal intercoxal process not visible; scutellum small, longer than broad, clothed with cinerous scales; mesepimeron clothed with clavate testaceous scales; mesepisternum clothed with clavate cinerous with a few testaceous scales mixed; metepisternum clothed with narrow, clavate, cinerous scales; metasternum clothed with clavate cinerous scales anteriorly and testaceous scales posteriorly; procoxae clothed with cinerous scales. Elytra: length: 3.6 mm (n ¼ 1). striae moderately deep with short, narrow, elongate, cinerous scales; humeri prominent, acutely rounded; intervals somewhat rounded, clothed with narrow, clavate cinerous and fuscous scales; testaceous fascia past midpoint and before apex; moderately convex in lateral view; crosshatched setae not prominent. Legs: length hind femur 2.4 mm (n ¼ 1); pro-, meso-, and metafemoral teeth small; femora base margins narrow, moderately clavate, clothed with narrow, elongate, cinerous scales; tibiae straight, all unci small. Abdomen: sternite 2 longer than 1 behind coxal cavity; sternite 3 and 4 equal in length, combined longer than 5; sternite 5 with acute apex and mid apical declivity, tuft of several long, apical, seta-like scales; sternite 1 and 2 clothed with clavate testaceous scales laterally, cinerous scales medially; sternites 3–5 clothed with narrow, elongate, cinerous scales. Pygidium: Small; clothed with long, narrow, seta-like, testaceous scales. Genitalia: median lobe 1.8 mm (n ¼ 1) in length, 0.4 mm (n ¼ 1) in width; margins evenly sclerotized, base as broad to before apex, apex tapered to extended rounded process (Fig. 57); laterally flat, thin, to deflected apex (Fig. 58); apodeme 2.2 mm (n ¼ 1) in length.   
 Remarks. This species appears similar to C. songi n. sp., but can be distinguished by funicular segment 2 as long as 1 and small metafemoral tooth.   
 Etymology. The specific epithet is based on the diagnostic character, mesosternal intercoxal process not prominent, ‘‘bulla’’ Latin noun for ‘‘knob’’ and ‘‘brevis’’ Latin adjective for ‘‘small.’’
description: Published as part of Pelsue, Frank W. & Zhang, Runzhi, 2003, A Review of the Genus Curculio from China with Descriptions of Fourteen New Species. Part IV. The Curculio sikkimensis (Heller) Group (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Curculioninae: Curculionini), pp. 311-333 in The Coleopterists Bulletin 57 (3) on page 325, DOI: 10.1649/570, http://zenodo.org/record/10103725