Systematics of the Holarctic species of the weevil genus Cleopomiarus Pierce (Coleoptera: Curculionidae)
Journal Title: Journal of Insect Biodiversity - Year 2016, Vol 4, Issue 6
Abstract
The Holarctic species of Cleopomiarus Pierce, 1919 (Curculionidae, Curculioninae, Mecinini) are revised. Two North American and 19 Palaearctic species are recognized as valid. Three of the latter are new to science: C. afghanus sp. nov. (Afghanistan), C. caucasicus sp. nov. (Armenia), and C. reitteri sp. nov. (Algeria, Morocco). Cleopomiarus ruscinonensis (Roudier & Tempère, 1966), described as subspecies of C. longirostris Gyllenhal, 1838, is raised to species (stat. nov.). The following new synonymies are proposed: Cleopomiarus distinctus (Boheman, 1845) (= Miarus dictamnophilus Zherichin, 1996 syn. nov.); Cleopomiarus flavoscutellatus (Morimoto, 1959) (= Miarus tapirus Korotyaev, 1999 syn. nov.); Cleopomiarus graminis (Gyllenhal, 1813) (= Miarus dulcinasutus Kangas, 1976 syn. nov.; = Miarus jakowlewi Faust, 1895 syn. nov.; = Miarus scutellaris subsp. mequignoni Hoffmann, 1939 syn. nov.). Miarus hispidulus Reitter, 1907 and M. hispidus Bovie, 1909 are again placed in synonymy with Cleopomiarus hispidulus (LeConte, 1876). The lectotypes of the following taxa are designated: Cionus micros Germar, 1824, Cionus plantarum Germar, 1824, Gymnetron distinctus Boheman, 1845, Gymnetron longirostris Gyllenhal, 1838, Miaromimus schatzmayri Solari, 1947, Miarus degorsi Abeille de Perrin, 1906, Miarus fuscopubens Reitter, 1907, Miarus graminis var. subfulvus Reitter, 1907, Miarus graminis var. subuniseriatus Reitter, 1907, Miarus hispidulus Reitter, 1907, Miarus jakowlewi Faust, 1895, Miarus longirostris ssp. mandschuricus Voss, 1952, Miarus medius Desbrochers des Loges, 1893, Miarus vestitus Roelofs, 1875. A key to the species, diagnoses of species groups, descriptions or redescriptions, notes on type specimens, synonymies, comparative notes, distribution, bionomics when available, phylogenenetic observations, and drawings of body, rostra, terminalia and other useful characters for taxonomy are provided.
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Roberto Caldara, Andrei A. Legalov
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