Baldorhynchus vailatii (Osella, 1983)

Bello, Cesare, Osella, Giuseppe & Baviera, Cosimo, 2016, A taxonomic revision of the genus Baldorhynchus (Di Marco & Osella, 2002) stat. n. (Coleoptera, Curculionidae, Entiminae), Zootaxa 4070 (1), pp. 1-101 : 58

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Troglorhynchus vailatii Osella, 1983: 95 -123; Abbazzi & Osella, 1992: 301; Abbazzi et al., 1994: 21; Osella & Zuppa, 1998: 1123 -1127.

Otiorhynchus (Troglorhynchus) vailatii: Magnano, 1998: 71 .

Otiorhynchus (Baldorhynchus) vailatii: Di Marco & Osella, 2002: 258 ; Colonnelli, 2003: 39; Abbazzi & Maggini, 2009: 53; Magnano & Alonso Zarazaga, 2013: 309.

Type locality. “ Cuèl dei Vervèrs , Val Campei , Toscolano, Brescia ”.

Diagnosis. A Baldorhynchus of medium size belonging to the B. ferrarii group. Within the species group, it is recognisable by the elongate oval elytra, scape robust and short and pronotum punctation not pocked. Punctation of the pronotum coarse, regularly scattered, feebly impressed and sparse. Elytral punctation normal, regularly aligned, feebly impressed and isodiametric. Total length: 4.00 mm. Elytra with length/width ratio 1.75. Pronotum length 0.90 mm with length/width ratio 1.17.

Description. See Osella (1983) and figures hoc opus.

Holotype. Male. Total length: 4.00 mm. Scape length: 0.90 mm; funicle length: 0.80 mm. Scape length/funicle length ratio: 1.13. Funicle with club ratios: 10: 7: 4: 5: 5: 4: 4: 28 (club). Vestigial eyes not present and area not covered by pubescence. Vertex width/mesorostrum width: ratio 1.50. Pronotum ratio: 1.17 (length: 0.90 mm, width: 0.77 mm). Elytra ratio: 1.75 (length: 2.10 mm, width: 1.20 mm).

Distribution. See Fig. 130. Italian endemic. Known only from “Cuèl dei Vervèrs” cave (N° 435 Lo) at 964 meters of elevation: 45°41’6.40’’N 10°34’6.40’’E in Val Campei near Toscolano.

Ecology/Phenology. See Osella (1983). The cave opens in Dolomite of Noricum (Trias) (Grottolo in litteris, 2015).

Material. We examined the material studied by Osella (1983).

Reproduction. Amphigonic

References

Abbazzi, P. & Osella, G. (1992) Elenco sistematico-faunistico degli Anthribidae, Rhinomaceridae, Attelabidae, Apionidae, Brentidae, Curculionidae Italiani (Insecta, Coleoptera; Curculionidae). Redia, 75 (2), 1992, 267 - 414.

Abbazzi, P. & Maggini, L. (2009) Elenco sistematico-faunistico dei Curculionoidea italiani, Scolytidae e Platypodidae esclusi (Insecta, Coleoptera). Aldrovandia, 5, 20 - 216.

Colonnelli, E. & Magnano, L. (2003) Colonnelli, E., (Ed.), A revised checklist of Italian Curculionoidea (Coleoptera). Zootaxa, 337, 1 - 142.

Di Marco, C. & Osella, G. (2002) Otiorhynchus radjai sp. n. from Vis Island (Dalmatia, Croatia), and description of a new subgenus of Otiorhynchus Germar (Coleoptera, Curculionidae). Italian Journal of Zoology, 69, 257 - 262. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1080 / 11250000209356468

Magnano, L. (1998) Notes on the Otiorhynchus Germar, 1824 complex (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) (pp. 51 - 80). In: Colonnelli, E., Louw, S. & Osella, G. (Eds.), Taxonomy, ecology and distribution of Curculionoidea (Coleoptera: Polyphaga). Proceedings of a Symposium (28 august, 1996, Florence, Italy). XX International Congress of Entomology. Atti del Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali, Torino, 294 pp.

Osella, G. & Zuppa, A. M. (1998) Coleoptera Curculionoidea: 1123 - 1130, en anglais, 5 fig. dont 3 cartes de distribution, 1 tab. sur 2 ref .. In: Juberthie, C. & Decu, V. (Eds.), Encyclopaedia Biospeleologica II, Juberthie C. & Decu V., ed., Societe de Biospeleologie, pp. 49. [ISSN 0398 - 7943, 4 e trimestre 1998]