Sicoderus remotus Vanin, 1986

Anderson, Robert S., 2018, The genus Sicoderus Vanin 1986 (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Curculioninae: Erodiscini) in the West Indies, Zootaxa 4497 (3), pp. 301-345 : 329-330

Sicoderus remotus Vanin

( Figures 63–64 , 70 . Map 10)

Sicoderus remotus Vanin 1986: 584 . Holotype male (BMNH) from St. Vincent, examined. Anderson 1999: 135.

Description: Length 2.8–4.7 mm (unsexed). Integument black, shining. Eyes separated by a distance about width of 3 ommatidia. Rostrum 1.09–1.19x length elytra in male; 1.21–1.25x length elytra in female. Antennal insertion at about apical two-fifths in male, at about middle in female. Prothorax constricted anteriorly, globose, widest at about middle; punctures sparse, small, elongate on disc, larger and deeper, forming striolae laterally on flanks; no setae present. Elytra in dorsal view widest at midlength, lateral margins convergent both anteriorly and posteriorly; humeri fully reduced, not at all angulate; no setae present. Strial punctures evident, small, shallow; striae not impressed. Membranous wings absent. Abdominal ventrite 1 of male deeply impressed at middle, with two widely separated, rounded tubercles near posterior margin of depression, each tubercle with small patch of fine setosity at tip; of female, uniformly convex in middle near posterior margin. Ventrite 5 with circular depression in apical onehalf, convex in female. Legs with front femora with ventral margin with small tooth, middle and hind femora each with very small blunt tooth; tarsal claws lacking small basal tooth. Aedeagus (fig. 70) widest at apex, internal sac with pair of short basal sclerites dextrally strongly L-shaped. Female not dissected.

Material examined: ST. VINCENT: St. Andrew Parish , Vermont Nature Trail, 1.IX.1991, C.W. & L. O’Brien (1 male; CWOB) . The type series from St. Vincent, West Indies (holotype, 9 male paratypes, 9 female paratypes; BMNH) was examined.

Comments: Aside from the single male noted above, the description presented here is modified from Vanin (1986). Vanin (1986) named this species from specimens from a number of unspecified sites on St. Vincent.

Figures

FIGURES 61–64. Species of Sicoderus. 61. Sicoderus ramosi, dorsal habitus. 62. Sicoderus ramosi, lateral habitus. 63. Sicoderus remotus, dorsal habitus. 64. Sicoderus remotus, lateral habitus.

FIGURES 69–72. Species of Sicoderus. 69. Sicoderus ramosi, aedeagus, dorsal view. 70. Sicoderus remotus, aedeagus, dorsal view. 71. Sicoderus schoenherri, aedeagus, dorsal view. 72. Sicoderus sleeperi, aedeagus, dorsal view.