Baiocis nubilosus Roberts & Morimoto, 1986

Beaver, Roger A., 2018, A review of the genus Baiocis Browne, 1962 (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Platypodinae), with new species, new synonymy and a key to males, Zootaxa 4434 (3), pp. 481-501 : 496

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4434.3.5
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scientific name	Baiocis nubilosus Roberts & Morimoto
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Baiocis nubilosus Roberts & Morimoto View in CoL

Baiocis nubilosus Roberts and Morimoto, 1987: 162 View in CoL .

Taxonomy: The senior author has examined the male holotype and a female paratype (BMNH), as well as four males collected by B. Jordal in Papua New Guinea. The species is very closely related to Baiocis pernanulus View in CoL . Both sexes are distinguishable by their greater size (2.7‒2.9 mm compared to 1.9‒2.4 mm), and the males by slight differences in the posterolateral tooth of the elytra (see key). We have seen no specimens intermediate in size, and therefore retain the species. It is reliably recorded only from Papua New Guinea, but may also occur in Australia. The female described as B. pernanulus View in CoL from Australia by Schedl (1936b) was 2.7 mm long, outside the normal range of females found in other areas, and may actually belong to B. nubilosus View in CoL .

Distribution: Papua New Guinea. ( Australia?).

Biology: Recorded from Garcinia sp. ( Clusiaceae ) ( Roberts & Morimoto 1987).