Coturpus
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Ordo: Coleoptera
Familia: Curculionidae
Name
Coturpus R.S. Anderson, 1994: 480 – Wikispecies link – Pensoft Profile
Type species
Coturpus arcuatus R.S. Anderson, 1994.
Gender
Masculine.
Diagnosis
Within the Eulechriops complex of genera, Coturpus can be identified by lacking a striolate profemoral patch (as in Copturomimus), lacking a very prominent receptacle on the mesoventrite (as in Turcopus), lacking the premucro-like inner flange at the tibial apex (as in Cylindrocopturinus), and can be differentiated from the observed species of Eulechriops by bearing elongate setae on the ventral surface of strongly arcuate hind legs at least in the males and by lacking a procoxal mesal tooth (though with the vast numbers of undescribed Eulechriops it is difficult to rule out the absence of this character from that genus).
Notes
Females are unknown, and R.S. Anderson (1994[1]: 482) suspects the modified hind legs to be found only in males as similar modification to the hind legs is known only in male Cylindrocopturinus.
Phylogenetic relationships
R.S. Anderson (1994[1]: 462) proposed a relationship to Cylindrocopturinus based on the presence of elongate setae on the ventral surface of the hind legs in males. This genus is difficult to separate from large and variable Eulechriops. Coturpus can be further separated from Turcopus and Cylindrocopturinus by genitalic characters given by R.S. Anderson (1994)[1].
Host associations
The genus has been collected on mistletoe, Phoradendron Nutt. (Santalaceae) on Quercus (R.S. Anderson 1994[1]: 484).
Described species
One (R.S. Anderson 1994[1]).
Range
Mexico.
Taxon Treatment
- Anzaldo, S; 2017: Review of the genera of Conoderinae (Coleoptera, Curculionidae) from North America, Central America, and the Caribbean ZooKeys, (683): 51-138. doi
Images
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![Figures 75–78. Lateral and dorsal habitus images of Lechriopini. 75a–b Copturomorpha sp. [ASUHIC0086641] 76a–b Copturus aurivillianus [ASUHIC0024140] 77a–b Coturpus arcuatus [ARTSYS0000531] 78a–b Cylindrocopturinus pictus [SSAC0001288]. Scale bars = 2 mm.](/wiki/File:Zookeys-683-051-g009.jpg)
Other References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Anderson R (1994) A review of New World weevils associated with Viscaceae (mistletoes [in part]) including descriptions of new genera and new species (Coleoptera: Curculionidae). Journal of Natural History 28(2): 435–492. https://doi.org/10.1080/00222939400770201
