Baldorhynchus anachoreta Bello & Osella 2016, sp. n.
Creators: name: Bello, Cesare
name: Osella, Giuseppe
name: Baviera, Cosimo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Curculionidae
Baldorhynchus
Baldorhynchus anachoreta

description: Baldorhynchus anachoreta Bellò & Osella sp. n.
(Figures 22, 22a, 22b, 22c, 22d, 22e, 22f, 39, 59, 111)
Type locality. “ Grotta del Convento a quota superiore, (5535 V/VI), 132 m, Monti Lessini, Isola Vicentina, Vicenza ” (Fig. 143).
Diagnosis. A Baldorhynchus of medium size belonging to the B. ferrarii group. Within the species group, it is recognisable by rostrum elongate and covered by not dense white-grey pubescence. Punctation of pronotum small, regularly arranged, isodiametric, not deep and not dense. Punctation of the elytra small, not isodiametric, not deep and regularly aligned. Total length: 4.20–4.60 mm. Elytra with length/width ratio 1.84–1.85. Pronotum length 1.00–1.00 mm with length/width ratio 1.18–1.18.
Type series. Holotype male: [transparent label with genitalia] // ♂ [white, printed] // "661, Veneto, Monti Lessini, Isola Vic.[ent]ina (VI)" [white, hand-written] // “661, Gr. [otta] del Convento a quota superiore” // 661, E. Piva leg. 07.III.1986 ” [white, hand-written] // " Baldorhynchus anachoreta sp. n., Holotype, det. Bellò & Osella, 2015" [red, printed] (GOS). Paratypes. “ Veneto, Monti Lessini, Isola Vic.[ent]ina (VI), 661, Gr. [otta] del Convento a quota superiore, 13.II.1986 ” (CBE), 1 female; “ Veneto, Monti Lessini, Isola Vic.[ent]ina (VI), 661, Grotta del Convento a quota superiore, I. Ferrari leg. 7.III.1986 ” (CBE), 1 female; “ Veneto, Monti Lessini, Isola Vic.[ent]ina (VI), 661, Grotta del Convento a quota superiore a m. 150 circa, 19.II.1995 G. Peretto leg.” (CBE), 1 female (abdomen). Types are four specimens (one male and three females). Genitalia of three (one male and two female) were examined.
Holotype. Male. Total length: 4.20 mm. Rostrum elongate and covered by not dense white-grey pubescence; less twice longer than the head; dorsum convex; mesorostrum little gibbous. Antenna elongate with long, semierect, thin setae; scape clavate and more robust than funicle. Scape length: 0.95 mm; funicle length: 0.90 mm. Scape length/funicle length ratio: 1.05. Funicle with club ratios as follows: 11: 7: 5: 6: 5: 6: 6: 28 (club); fusiform club with first segment flat, long as the last five funicle segments, less twice wider than funicle. Head smooth on disc, short, conical. Supraorbital area partially covered by pubescence. Vertex width / mesorostrum width: ratio 1.58. Vestigial eyes present, visible, not covered by white-grey pubescence. Pronotum (length: 1.00 mm, width: 0.85 mm, ratio: 1.18) sub-cylindrical, sinuate at the base, wider in the anterior third; short erect seta inserted in center of hole; punctation small, not deep, not dense, isodiametric but of the different widths, uniformly arranged; little smooth central area on disc. Scutellum small, inconspicuous. Elytra convex, oval with strongly elevated suture (length: 2.35 mm, width: 1.28 mm, ratio: 1.84), strongly rounded on sides, widest at middle. Striae punctation is not deep, not isodiametric but regularly aligned, with a minute and long seta; interspaces between strial punctation regular and less wide hole. Interstriae as wide as striae, flat, smooth with sparse, long and erect setae. Legs thin and elongate, with rather long golden setae. Femora clubbed and edentate. Tibiae with seven little evident tooth-like tubercles on inner edge; protibia slightly curved in side view, metatibia and mesotibia straight. Penis lengthened, sub-parallel seen from above and regularly and moderately curved in lateral view; tegmen little sclerotized; penis apex as in Fig. 22f.
Distribution. See Fig. 130. Italian endemic. Known only from “Grotta of Convento a quota superiore” cave at 132 meters of elevation: 45°37’38.4’’N 11°26’30.9’’E at Isola Vicentina, in the eastern foothills of the Lessini Mountains.
Etymology. From Latin word, anachoreta (lonely man), for its isolated distribution.
Ecology/Phenology. Piva (in litteris, 2015) reports in the cave "Grotta del Convento a quota superiore" the presence, toghether with B. anachoreta sp. n, of the following species of Coleoptera: Carabidae Trechinae, Orotrechus vicentinus vicentinus (Gestro, 1907); Cholevidae Leptodirinae, Neobathyscia fabianii (Dodero, 1904), Neobathyscia leccei Piva, 1984 (the cave is type locality of this species), Pholeuonidius halbherri (Reitter, 1887); Platypsyllidae, Leptinus testaceus Müller, 1817.
Reproduction. Amphigonic.
description: Published as part of Bello, Cesare, Osella, Giuseppe & Baviera, Cosimo, 2016, A taxonomic revision of the genus Baldorhynchus (Di Marco & Osella, 2002) stat. n. (Coleoptera, Curculionidae, Entiminae), pp. 1-101 in Zootaxa 4070 (1) on pages 58-60, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4070.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1054428