Apodrosus
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Ordo: Coleoptera
Familia: Curculionidae
Name
Apodrosus Marshall, 1922 – Wikispecies link – Pensoft Profile
Gender masculine
Type species Apodrosus wolcotti Marshall 1922[2]: 59, by original designation.
Diagnosis and description
Girón and Franz (2010)[3] present a detailed diagnosis and description of the genus. Their diagnosis (slightly modified) follows here: Apodrosus is a genus of relatively small sized (2-7 mm), often metallic colored (but not among the Cuban species), exclusively Caribbean entimine weevils without a pronotal postocular lobe and postocular vibrissae, and with the humeri and wings well developed. Species of Apodrosus may resemble members of the Anypotactini and Polydrusini; however, Apodrosus can be distinguished from Polydrusus and other polydrusine genera by a particular combination of characters including a median furrow on the head, a large, bare, and smooth triangular area formed by the epistome on the rostrum; the presence of premucro; the presence of a median fovea on sternum VII; and an either J- or Y-shaped female spermatheca. Apodrosus is furthermore distinguished from an undescribed though apparently closely related genus that also occurs at higher elevations in the Hispaniolan Cordillera by having a well defined epistome, well developed elytral humeri, and fully developed wings. Finally, Apodrosus differs from Anypotactus Schoenherr in having connate (as opposed to free) claws.
Distribution
Species of Apodrosus are known from the Bahamas, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Mona Island, Puerto Rico, and the Turks and Caicos Islands. The records of the genus from Cuba are reported herein for the first time.
Description of species
Taxon Treatment
- Anderson, R; Zhang, G; 2017: The genus Apodrosus Marshall, 1922 in Cuba (Coleoptera, Curculionidae, Entiminae, Polydrusini) ZooKeys, (679): 77-105. doi
Other References
- ↑ Wolcott G (1924) “Insecta Portoricensis”. A preliminary annotated checklist of the insects of Puerto Rico, with descriptions of some new species. Journal of the Department of Agriculture of Porto Rico 7: 1–313.
- ↑ Marshall G (1922) Some injurious Neotropical weevils (Curculionidae). Bulletin of Entomolpogical Research 13: 59–71. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007485300045247
- ↑ Girón J, Franz N (2010) Revision, phylogeny, and historical biogeography of the genus Apodrosus Marshall, 1922 (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Entiminae). Insect Systematics & Evolution 41: 339–414. dx.https://doi.org/10.1101/053611
