Zygopsella
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Ordo: Coleoptera
Familia: Curculionidae
Name
Zygopsella Champion, 1906b: 42 – Wikispecies link – Pensoft Profile
Type species
Zygopsella ruficauda Champion, 1906 [by original designation].
Gender
Feminine.
Diagnosis
Zygopsella is similar in appearance to Archocopturus and some species of Macrocopturus, Hoplocopturus, and Copturomimus with blue-green pronotal scales, but of those genera is similar only to Archocopturus with the subequal first two articles of the funiculus and deep pronotal punctures. From Archocopturus, Zygopsella can be separated by the more widely separated eyes (Fig. 54), the more sharply acuminate lower margin and more strongly inflexed lower lateral margin of the eyes, the more strongly arcuate lateral margins of the pronotum (Fig. 103b), the ventrally toothed profemora, the ventrally emarginate tibiae to receive the femoral tooth, and the flattened caudal prominences of the elytra (Fig. 103b).
Phylogenetic relationships
Suggested by Champion (1906b[1]: 42) to be closely related to Archocopturus. The combination of ascending abdominal ventrites, concealed pygidium, unmodified mesoventrite, carinate and ventrally toothed metafemora and short second funicular article of the antenna is shared only with Archocopturus, Phileas, and Larides (the latter only with a faint carina in the distal half of the femora). Also similar to many Cylindrocopturus with the elytral processes and relatively widely separated eyes. Zygopsella has a similar eye shape to Helleriella that is strongly laterally inflexed and sharply ventrally acuminate.
Host associations
Unknown.
Described species
Two, including one species transferred from Archocopturus by Hespenheide (2005)[2].
Range
Mexico (Hespenheide 2005[2]: 683), Guatemala, Costa Rica (Hespenheide 2005[2]: 682), Panama (Hespenheide 2005[2]: 683), Guadeloupe (Hespenheide 2005[2]: 683).
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 46–54. Variation in eye shape. 46 Poecilogaster brevis [ARTSYS0000805] with relatively vertical, separated eyes 47 Arachnomorpha circumlineata [ARTSYS0000535] showing subcontiguous eyes separated at the top by a broad interocular space 48 Archocopturus medeterae [ASUHIC0086637] with subcontiguous eyes separated at the top by a thin lanceolate space 49 Cylindrocopturus quercus [ASUHIC0016905] with vertical, separated eyes 50 Helleriella longicollis [ASUHIC0065241] with widely separated eyes and a very thin rostrum 51 Larides cavifrons [ASUHIC0016882], showing a strongly depressed interocular space 52 Male Lissoderes cecropiae [ASUHIC0064708] showing oval, subcontiguous eyes and an apical antennal insertion on the rostrum 53 Philenis fuscofemorata [ARTSYS0000659] showing ovoid eyes and slender antennae 54 Zygopsella ruficauda [ARTSYS0000526] with a sinuous lateral and mesal margin of the eyes which is strongly inflexed at the lower lateral margin.](/wiki/File:Zookeys-683-051-g005.jpg)
![Figures 103–105. Lateral and dorsal habitus images of Zygopini and Conoderinae incertae sedis. Scale bars = 1 mm unless otherwise specified. 103a–b Zygopsella ruficauda [ARTSYS0000526]; scale bar = 2 mm 104a–b Philides comans [ARTSYS0000804] 105a–b Philinna bicristata [ARTSYS0000532].](/wiki/File:Zookeys-683-051-g016.jpg)
Other References
- ↑ Champion G (1906b) Insecta – Coleoptera – Rhychophora – Curculionidae – Curculioninae (part). In: Champion GC (Ed.) Biologia Centrali-Americana (Vol. 4, part 5). 1–136.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Hespenheide H (2005) Weevils of the genera Archocopturus Heller and Zygopsella Champion: sibling species and mimetic homoplasy (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Conoderinae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 107(3): 671–685.
