Abstract
A new monotypic genus of Naupactini (Coleoptera: Curculionidae), Obrieniolus del Río is described based on the new species Obrieniolus robustus del Río, endemic to Peru. This genus is easily recognized by the black, denuded and shiny integument, with imbricate microsculpture and the rounded body, with short, cordiform and moderately convex elytra. According to a cladistic analysis based on 69 continuous and discrete morphological characters, the new genus is the sister taxon of a group formed by Amitrus Schoenherr, Trichocyphus Heller, Amphideritus Schoenherr, Asymmathetes Wibmer & O’Brien and Galapaganus Lanteri. The paper includes habitus photographs, line drawings of genitalia, mouthparts, and other external features of taxonomic value, and a dichotomous key to the genera of Naupactini distributed in the South American Transition Zone.
Highlights
The tribe Naupactini (Curculionidae: Entiminae) consists of approximately 65 genera (Alonso-Zarazaga and Lyal 1999) with over 500 species mainly distributed in Central
The holotype and three paratypes have been returned to CWOB collection, and one paratype has been deposited in the Museo de La Plata collection (MLP)
The Andean Naupactini are distributed in different biogeographic provinces of the Paramo-Puna subregion: Melanocyphus inhabit the Colombian Paramos; Obrieniolus occur in the Northern Puna, in the boundaries of the Peruvian Coastal Desert; Trichocyphus and Amitrus inhabit in the Puna, but they reach a southern and broader distribution range; Amphideritus have representatives in the Paramos of Venezuela and Colombia, and along the Pacific coastal deserts of Peru and Chile; Asymmathetes inhabit the Paramos of Ecuador; and the species of Galapaganus inhabit in the Peruvian Coastal Desert, the Galapagos islands and continental Ecuador
Summary
The tribe Naupactini (Curculionidae: Entiminae) consists of approximately 65 genera (Alonso-Zarazaga and Lyal 1999) with over 500 species mainly distributed in CentralCopyright M. Body rounded and medium-sized; integument black, denuded and shiny, with imbricate microsculpture and reddish-brown tarsi (Figs 1–2); rostrum very short with narrow epistome (Fig. 3); maxillae with suboval mala, not excavate, almost parallel to longitudinal axis of palpus (Fig. 7); prementum subcordate without setae (Figs 4–6); posterior margin of pronotum constricted and slightly posteriorly “V” shaped; elytra cordiform, moderately convex, with slightly posteriorly curved base and slightly prominent and subquadrate humeri (Fig. 1); punctures of striae strongly separated from each other; scutellum tiny, denuded; front coxae slightly separated from each other, 3× closer to anterior than to posterior margin of prosternum; row of denticles only present in front tibiae; outer bevels of hind tibiae broad and oblique.
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