Tylodinus noctis Luna-Cozar & Anderson & Jones & León-Cortés 2014, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Luna-Cozar, Jesús
name: Anderson, Robert S.
name: Jones, Robert W.
name: León-Cortés, Jorge L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Curculionidae
Tylodinus
Tylodinus noctis

description: 28. Tylodinus noctis Luna-Cozar, sp. nov.
(Figures 80–81, 121, 135)
Diagnosis. Length male, 2.5–2.8 mm, female, 3.0 mm. Width male, 1.2–1.4 mm, female 1.6 mm. Body approximately 2.0x longer than wide, black. Head with dark brown scales; vertex with patch of yellow scales on middle of vertex, dense to contiguous; frons moderately concave; rostrum moderately robust, moderately carinate, apical area puncticulate; eyes moderately convex. Pronotum in lateral view strongly convex, outline with anterior constriction, without posterior constriction (Figure 10); in dorsal view with sides slightly divergent from base to midlength, then convergent to apex, constricted beyond middle; disc with longitudinal impression; surface with dense and deep punctures on flanks, becoming smaller, scattered towards middle, with yellow to light brown scales, very dense on lateral area and flanks, anterior area forming a thick longitudinal fringe along middle and narrow strip that diverges from middle base to flanks, and with dark scales on the middle and posterior areas of disc (Figure 14); surface without granules. Elytra with basal margin slightly sinuate (Figure 3); tubercle distribution as follows: I2 with small, round tubercle on declivity base, I3 with two tubercles: first subbasal, second on middle of elytra, I4 with two small tubercles, first between tubercles on I3, second on declivity base, longer than tubercle on I2 (but in some specimens of equal size), I5 with two small tubercles in same position as tubercles on I3, tubercles on I3 longer than other tubercles, I6 with subbasal tubercle; surface without granules. Metasternum flat, median section glabrous; metasternal tooth absent. Male abdomen with ventrites 3–5 in same plane as ventrites 1–2, ventrite 1 weakly concave, glabrous at median section; ventrite 2 feebly concave, as long as ventrites 3–4 combined, with transverse line of scales along middle; ventrite 5 longer than ventrite 1, flat, with anterior impression. Femora armed, hind femur length reaching elytral apex, middle and hind tibiae subparallel, premucro absent. Male genitalia (Figure 121) similar to that of T. rufus. Female with sternite eight trapezoidal, median membranous area ½ as long as basal plate length, spermatheca very shallowly curved.
Comments. Male genitalia in T. complicatus, T. rufus, T. noctis and T. dominicus are very similar; however, T. noctis is distinguished from its allies by body coloration
Geographic distribution. México (Chiapas).
Habitat and elevation. Specimens were collected from leaf litter in mixed cloud forest between 1500–1900 m.
Derivation of specific name. Name derived from Latin word noctis = night
Material examined. Total 7 males, 2 females. Holotype male (CMNC): México: Chiapas, Coapilla, ca. 10.5 km NE Coapilla, elev. 1900 m (17°09.916'N, 93°08.337'W), 13.vii.2007, coll. R. S. Anderson, mixed Liquidambar, magnolia, pine forest litter 2007-010. Paratypes: México: Chiapas, ca. 10.5 km NE Coapilla, elev. 1900 m (17°9'55.08''N, 93°8'20.4''W), 13.vii.2007, coll. R. S. Anderson — 2 males, 1 female (CMNC); 5 km NE Coapilla, elev. 1990 m (17.17575°N 93.13284°W), 25.v.2008, LLAMA (Wa-a-04-1-07) — 1 male (CMNC); Rayon, 8.9 km E Rayón, elev. 1500 m (17°10'58.08''N, 92°55'47.28''W), 19.ix.1991, coll. R. S. Anderson — 3 males, 1 female (CMNC, ECOS).
description: Published as part of Luna-Cozar, Jesús, Anderson, Robert S., Jones, Robert W. & León-Cortés, Jorge L., 2014, A taxonomic monograph of the genus Tylodinus Champion (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Cryptorhynchinae: Tylodina) of Chiapas, Mexico, pp. 1-63 in Zootaxa 3788 (1) on page 49, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3788.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4913761