Peridinetus stigmatipleura Champion

Prena, Jens, 2010, The Middle American species of Peridinetus Schönherr (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Baridinae), Zootaxa 2507, pp. 1-36 : 27-28

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19. Peridinetus stigmatipleura Champion

( Fig. 50, 51)

Peridinetus stigmatipleura Champion, 1907: 179 . Seidlitz (1909: 326), Hustache (1938: 10), Blackwelder (1947: 887), O’Brien & Wibmer (1982: 178).

Diagnosis. Peridinetus stigmatipleura is a small species with white flank and two pairs (the anterior pair sometimes missing) of elytral spots ( Fig. 50, 51). The color pattern is shared by one undescribed Palliolatrix species so far known from Peru. The studied specimens were 3.2–3.7 mm long (standard length 3.0– 3.5 mm).

Distribution. This species has been found on the Pacific side of the Cordillera de Talamanca ( Costa Rica, Panama) and in central Panama.

Plant association. Piper augustum (Prena 20 ×), P. hispidum (Prena 1 ×), P. dilatatum (Prena 1 ×).

Type material. 9 syntypes, Panamá, Bugaba ( BMNH 6) and Volcán ( BMNH 2, USNM 1).

Material examined. Costa Rica. Puntarenas: P.N. Manuel Antonio, 80 m ( INBC 7, JPPC 1); Osa, P.N. Corcovado, Est. Esquinas , 10 m ( INBC 12, JPPC 2), Est. Sirena, 50 m ( INBC 4), Est. La Leona, 50 m ( JPPC 1); Osa, Rancho Quemado , 200 m ( INBC 7); Altamira, 1800 m ( JPPC 2); 4 km S San Vito, 1100 m ( JPPC 2). San José: 13 NE San Isidro del General, Cerro Chucuyo, 1300 m ( CMNC 1, JPPC 19). Panamá. Coclé: El Valle 850 m ( CHAH 1, HPSC 1); Panamá: Cerro Campana, 850 m ( HPSC 2, USNM 2). Chiriquí: Sta. Clara ( HPSC 2); Volcán ( USNM 1). Total 67 specimens.

References

Blackwelder, R. E. (1947) Checklist of the Coleopterous insects of Mexico, Central America, the West Indies, and South America. Part 5. Bulletin. United States National Museum, 185, i - iv, 765 - 925.

Champion, G. C. (1907) Insecta. Coleoptera. Rhynchophora. Curculionidae. Curculioninae (continued) [pp. 137 - 240]. In: Champion, G. C. (1906 - 1909) Biologia Centrali-Americana. Vol. 4, part 5, 513 pp. + 23 pls.

Hustache, A. (1938) Pars 163: Curculionidae: Barinae. In: Junk, W. & Schenkling, S. (eds.) Coleopterorum Catalogus. ' s-Gravenhage, 219 pp.

O'Brien, C. W. & Wibmer, G. (1982) Annotated checklist of the weevils (Curculionidae sensu lato) of North America, Central America, and the West Indies (Coleoptera: Curculionidae). Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute, 34, i - ix, 1 - 382.

Seidlitz, G. (1909) Bericht uber die wissenschaftlichen Leistungen im Gebiete der Entomologie wahrend des Jahres 1907. Coleoptera. Archiv fur Naturgeschichte, 2 (2), 55 - 392.