Open AccessFirst record of the genus Bordoniola Osella, 1987 in Ecuador with description of five new species (Coleoptera: Curculionidae, Raymondionyminae)
Author(s) -
Cosimo Baviera,
Cesare Bellò,
Giuseppe Osella
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
zootaxa
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.621
H-Index - 87
eISSN - 1175-5334
pISSN - 1175-5326
DOI - 10.11646/zootaxa.3455.1.4
Subject(s) - biology , curculionidae , weevil , key (lock) , genus , taxonomy (biology) , checklist , zoology , botany , ecology , paleontology
Five new species of the small blind weevil genus Bordoniola Osella, 1987 from Ecuador are described and illustrated: B.ecuadorialis sp. n., B. minima sp. n., B. otongana sp. n., B. relicta sp. n., B. simillima sp. n. Distributional and ecologicaldata are provided for each of the new species. This is the first record of the genus outside Venezuela, from where only two species were known. A key to species and a checklist of all Bordoniola thus far known are given.