Palliolatrix silacea Prena

Prena, Jens, 2009, The West Indian Peridinetini (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Baridinae), Zootaxa 2210, pp. 51-64 : 54

Palliolatrix silacea Prena sp. n.

( Figs. 3, 5, 13, 17)

Description. Total length 4.6 mm, standard length 4.4 mm (n= 1). Integument black, antenna and tibial spine reddish brown; basic vestiture of inconspicuous, black scales; imbricate, orange scales in well-defined patches on pronotum, elytra, metasternum and ventrite 2 ( Figs. 3, 5). Rostrum 0.80 × as long as pronotum, middle section more curved, basal half slightly tumid dorsomedially, portion distal to antennal insertion 0.43 × as long as rostrum. Pronotum 0.96 × as long as wide, sides weakly rounded, front projected. Elytra 1.56 × longer than wide, humeri 1.33 × wider than pronotum; striae subtle, strial punctures mostly inconspicuous; interstria 3 not swollen on disk, preapical callus weak. Legs slender, femora clavate and with ventral tooth, tibia with ventral margin slightly bisinuate, tarsal claws subconnate at base. Male with ventrite 5 depressed; apex of aedeagus round, fused medially, lateral portions membranous ( Fig. 13); internal sac with basal sclerite flagelliform, approximately as long as apodemes.

Material examined. Holotype male (dissected), labeled: “ ST. VINCENT, St./ Andrew P[arish], Vermont/ Nat[ure] Tr [ail], IX- 1-1991 / C.W & L.B. O’Brien”, “ HOLOTYPE / Palliolatrix / silacea Prena ” ( CASC, longterm loan to CWOB).

Distribution. The species is known only from one specimen, collected in Saint Vincent & the Grenadines ( Fig. 17).

Plant associations. Unknown.

Specific epithet. The name is a regular Latin adjective meaning ochreous.