Taxonomic revision of the East Asian genus Scleropteroides Colonnelli, 1979 (Coleoptera, Curculionidae, Ceutorhynchinae)
Author(s) -
Hiraku Yoshitake,
Junhao Huang,
Runzhi Zhang,
Motomi Itô
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
zookeys
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.672
H-Index - 43
eISSN - 1313-2989
pISSN - 1313-2970
DOI - 10.3897/zookeys.437.6563
Subject(s) - sympatric speciation , curculionidae , rubus , east asia , geography , genus , biology , taxonomy (biology) , key (lock) , zoology , china , ecology , archaeology
The genus Scleropteroides Colonnelli, 1979 (Ceutorhynchinae: Scleropterini) was revised on the basis of detailed morphological observations. The genus was redefined to include three species from East Asia: S. hypocrita (Hustache, 1916) is redescribed and recorded from northeastern China and northern Korea for the first time; S. horridulus (Voss, 1958) is redescribed with new records from southern Korea; S. insularis Voss, 1971 was moved from synonymy with S. hypocrita to that with S. horridulus (syn. n.), and S. longiprocessus Huang & Yoshitake, sp. n. is described as new, sympatric with S. hypocrita in Japan. All the species are associated with woody Rubus species (Rosaceae). A key to species, habitus photographs, illustrations of important characters, and distribution maps are provided for each species.
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