Acalles granulimaculosus
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Ordo: Coleoptera
Familia: Curculionidae
Genus: Acalles
Name
Acalles granulimaculosus Schütte, André, 2015 – Wikispecies link – Pensoft Profile
- Acalles granulimaculosus Schütte, André, 2015, Zootaxa 3915: 27-27.
Description
Description. Length. 2.0– 2.6 mm (without rostrum). The new species corresponds in all other details—excluding the characteristics listed above, with the sister taxon A. pilula from Tenerife and the western islands El Hierro and La Palma (type locality). A detailed redescription of A. pilula with many scientific illustrations and a comparison with A. globulipennis can be found in Stüben (2000: 82-85). See also the couplet 43 vs. 43 ’ in this study.
Etymology
Etymology. The species name refers to the small body (latin: granulum) and in many cases soiled, but always colored elytra (latin: maculosus) Ecology. The specimens of the new species can be knocked off dead and broken branches of bushes and trees of the laurel forest and the thermophilic brushwood.
Distribution
Distribution. So far this species is only known from the Canarian Island La Gomera.
Taxon Treatment
- Schütte, André; Stüben, Peter E.; 2015: Molecular systematics and morphological identification of the cryptic species of the genus Acalles Schoenherr, 1825, with descriptions of new species (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Cryptorhynchinae), Zootaxa 3915: 27-27. doi
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