Palliolatrix lateropicta Prena

Prena, Jens, 2009, The West Indian Peridinetini (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Baridinae), Zootaxa 2210, pp. 51-64 : 53-54

Palliolatrix lateropicta Prena sp. n.

( Figs. 2, 4, 12, 15, 17)

Description. Total length 5.5–6.1 mm, standard length 5.4–5.9 mm (n= 2). Integument reddish to brown; basic vestiture of small, yellowish to brown scales; moderately dense to imbricate, white to pale yellow scales in compound pattern on pronotum, elytra, mesepisternum, metasternum and ventrites ( Figs. 2, 4). Rostrum 0.75– 0.82 × as long as pronotum, middle section more curved, portion distal to antennal insertion 0.39–0.43 × as long as rostrum. Pronotum 1.04–1.05 × longer than wide, sides subparallel in basal half, constricted and tubulate in front, front projected. Elytra 1.52–1.56 × longer than wide, humeri 1.43–1.49 × wider than pronotum; striae subtle and narrower than strial punctures; interstria 3 not swollen on disk, preapical callus weak. Legs slender, femora clavate and with ventral tooth, tibia with ventral margin nearly straight, tarsal claws subconnate at base. Male with ventrite 5 depressed; apex of aedeagus subtriangular, fused medially, lateral portions membranous ( Fig. 12); internal sac with basal sclerite flagelliform ( Fig. 15), approximately as long as apodemes.

Material examined. Holotype male (dissected), labeled: “ DOMINICA, ca. 2600 ' [ 800 m]/ Morne Trois Pitons N. P./ Freshwater Lake Rd, 13 -/ 8-1986, C.W. & L. O’Brien”, “ HOLOTYPE / Palliolatrix / lateropicta Prena ” ( CASC, long-term loan to CWOB). Paratype 1, female, same data as holotype except 21.viii. 1986 ( CWOB).

Distribution. The species is known from two specimens collected in the Commonwealth of Dominica ( Fig. 17).

Plant associations. Unknown.

Specific epithet. The name is a compound perfect passive participle derived from the Latin noun latus, side or flank, and Latin verb pingere, to paint.