Curculio albisquama Ter­Minassian, 1956

Pelsue, Frank W. & Zhang, Runzhi, 2002, A Review Of The Genus Curculio From China With Descriptions Of New Taxa. Part III. The Curculio subfenestratus Voss Group (Curculionidae: Curculioninae: Curculionini), The Coleopterists Bulletin 56 (1), pp. 1-39 : 21

Curculio albisquama Ter­Minassian

Figs. 63–64

Curculio albisquama Ter­Minassian 1956:431 .

Type. Northern China: Holotype male ( ZMAS).

Diagnosis. Oval; 3.3 mm (n = 1) in length, 1.8 mm (n = 1) in width; frons 0.27 as broad as head across eyes, base of rostrum as broad as frons; segment 1 of antennal club longer than funicular segment 7; disc of pronotum clothed with narrow, elongate, white scales; scutellum large, as long as broad, clothed with white scales; mesosternal intercoxal process not prominent; distad of scutellum, elytra with short vitta on interval 1 of testaceous scales, disc flat in lateral view, clothed with narrow, elongate, cinerous to dirty white scales, with feeble fascia of white scales past midpoint and vague vittae of white scales distad of humeri; hind femur with small tooth; metatibiae sinuate, pro­, mesouncus large as long as tarsal claw, metauncus small; sternite 1 longer than 2 behind coxal cavity. Pygidium : small­sized, clothed with dense tuft of long, narrow, white seta­like scales. Genitalia: not dissected.

Distribution. China.

Remarks. This species was described from a unique specimen collected in 1893 from China. It stands apart from the remainder of this species group in its size and general appearance being gray to white, thus the name C. albisquama .