Elytroteinus, Marshall, 1920

Kuschel, Guillermo, 2008, Curculionoidea (weevils) of New Caledonia and Vanuatu: Basal families and some Curculionidae, Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle 197, pp. 99-250 : 213

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Genus ELYTROTEINUS Marshall View in CoL

Elytroteinus Marshall, 1920: 276 View in CoL (new name for Pteroporus Fairmaire 1881 View in CoL (non Schoenherr 1843)).

Pteroporus Fairmaire, 1881: 307 View in CoL (type species P. subtruncatus Fairmaire View in CoL ).

DESCRIPTION. — A genus of flightless species from the Pacific islands characterised by having a forehead with a lateral furrow beside eyes, a pronotum with small, shallow, setiferous or squamiferous puncta to appear rather smooth, no scutellum, granulate elytra with obsolescent stria 10, a bare rostral canal, a cavernous mesosternal receptacle, a ventrite 2 at least as long as 3 and 4 combined and at distinctly different level, subsulcate femora, multicarinate, uncinate tibiae, and small, slender, subdivaricate claws.

ETYMOLOGY. — ‘Elytrotéinus’ is a Greek compound derived from the noun ‘élytron’ for a case or cover, and the verb ‘teino’ for stretch or expand.

REMARKS. — Two species are described, one known from a wide area in the Pacific, the other from the Solomon Islands ( Zimmerman 1938), and a third species from Fiji is new. The latter, although outside the faunal area of this study, is described to confirm that the genus Elytroteinus is native to the Pacific islands on and around the Fijian area.

References

88 (3): 201 - 222. MARSHALL G. A. K. 1920. - Some new injurious weevils. Bulletin of KLEINE R. 1928. - Two new Brenthidae in the Bishop Museum Collection. Entomological Research 11 (3): 271 - 278, pl. 7.

hujus familiae, vol. 2 (1): 1 - 326; vol. 2 (2): 329 - 673. Paris, Roret. ZIMMERMAN E. C. 1938. - A second species of Elytroteinus (Coleoptera, SCHOENHERR C. J. 1836. - Genera et species curculionidum, cum synonymia Curculionidae). Proceedings of the Hawaiian Entomological Society 10: hujus familiae, vol. 3 (1). Paris, Roret: 1 - 505. 155 - 157.