Platysimus septentrionalis (Paulian)
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Platysimus septentrionalis (Paulian) View in CoL
Figs 55, 56
Heteroglymma septentrionalis Paulian, 1945: 188 View in CoL , 191.
Platysimus septentrionalis View in CoL – Thompson 1982: 86, figs 9-18, pls 2, 52, 53 (syn. pauliani , ruteri View in CoL ).
Heteroglymma auberti Paulian, 1945: 188 View in CoL , 192, figs 25- 27 n. syn.
Heteroglymma pauliani Marshall, 1956: 119 .
Heteroglymma ruteri Paulian,1945: 187 View in CoL , 190.
DESCRIPTION. — Male: humeral area in dorsal view concavely curved (sinuous). Flattening or depression of the elytral dorsum to the sides ends normally with stria 7, not with 5 or 6 as in P. insularis , P. planidorsi and P. setiger .
Female: subparallel sides of elytra and a non-excavate ventrite 5 separates P. septentionalis from P. fleutiauxi , but not from other species.
Length: 3.0- 5.7 mm.
TYPE MATERIAL. — No type material present .
MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Vanuatu. Banks Is. (2 exs), Espíri- Erromango (61 exs), Tanna (33 exs), Aneityum (13 exs). In all tu Santo (79 exs), Malakula (90 exs), Ambrym (102 exs), Epi 525 specimens. (Also on Rennel I. and Santa Cruz of the Solo- (74 exs), Shepherd Group (Tongariki I., 1 ex.), Efate (70 exs), mon Is., after Thompson 1982) .
HOSTPLANTS. — Specimens were found on Citrus , Colocasia , Hibiscus, Ipomoea ; species not expected to be a specialised feeder.
REMARKS. — The concept of the species is in agreement with that of Thompson (1982) except for the geographical range here extended to include the southern islands of Vanuatu.
ETYMOLOGY. — The Latin epithet ‘septentrionális’, meaning northerly, came from ‘septentrio’ (pl. septentriones) for
the seven brightest stars of Ursa major , the Great Bear Constellation right by the north pole.
and subfamilies. Memoir of the Entomological Society of Washington MARSHALL G. A. K. 1956. - The otiorhynchine Curculionidae of the tribe 14: 5 - 33. Celeuthetini (Col.). Trustees of the British Museum, London, 134 p.
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Platysimus septentrionalis (Paulian)
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Heteroglymma pauliani
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