Copturomimus Heller, 1895

Hespenheide, Henry A., 2009, Two New Weevils (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Conoderinae) from Cocos Island, Costa Rica, The Coleopterists Bulletin 63 (3), pp. 333-339 : 336

Copturomimus Heller, 1895

Currently, 16 species of Copturomimus have been described from México to Brazil (O’Brien and Wibmer 1982; Wibmer and O’Brien 1986), although more than 40 morphospecies have been recognized at the La Selva Biological Station (Hespenheide, unpublished). The genus is characterized by the combination of a striolate area on the anterior femora and posterior femora that are longitudinally carinate and armed beneath with a tooth. Although this combination of characters allows easy placement of species in the genus, it appears that the genus is not monophyletic. The striolate area is probably used behaviorally (but see Champion 1906) and may have been independently evolved more than once, as it also is characteristic of the genus Copturomorpha Champion in combination with unarmed and non-carinate posterior femora.