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Genus of beetles

Hadromeropsis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Curculionidae
Tribe: Tanymecini
Genus: Hadromeropsis
Pierce, 1913

Hadromeropsis is a genus of broad-nosed weevils in the beetle family Curculionidae.

There are more than 50 described species in Hadromeropsis.

Taxonomy

Hadromeropsis was described for the first time by W. Dwight Pierce in 1913 (p. 400). The Central American species were treated by Champion. The genus was revised by Anne Howden in 1982: It contains two subgenera: Hadromeropsis (Hadromeropsis) and Hadromeropsis (Hadrorestes).

Description

Howden offered the following diagnosis for Hadromeropsis:

Small to large, 5 to 20 mm in length. Scales never sculptured. Posterior margin of epistoma never carinate or keeled, although margin elevated distally in a few species. Mandible with vestiture of lateral and ventral surface similar to that of rostrum. Pronotum never produced anteriorly over vertex. Female with caudal surface of ventrites 2, 3, and 4 conspicuously elevated, often perpendicular or slanted anteriorly or posteriorly, edge of caudal surface usually sharply delimited; character less developed in male.

— A.T. Howden, Revision of the New World genus Hadromeropsis Pierce (Coleoptera, Curculionidae, Tanymecini)

Howden indicates that the most similar genus to Hadromeropsis is the South American genus Macropterus.

Distribution

The genus Hadromeropsis has been recorded from Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Mexico, and Panama.

Species

These 53 species belong to the genus Hadromeropsis:

References

  1. Alonso-Zarazaga, M.A.; Lyal, C.H.C. (1999). A world catalogue of families and genera of Curculionoidea (Insecta: Coleoptera) excluding Scolytidae and Platypodidae (PDF). Barcelona, Spain: Entomopraxis. pp. 315 pp.
  2. Pierce, W.D. (1913). "Miscellaneous contributions to the knowledge of the weevils of the families Attelabidae and Brachyrhinidae". Proceedings of the United States National Museum. 45: 365–426.
  3. Champion, GC (1911). Otiorhynchinae Alatae. In: Biologia Centrali-Americana, Volume 4, Part 3. London: Bernard Quaritch. pp. 178–317.
  4. Howden, A.T. (1982). "Revision of the New World genus Hadromeropsis Pierce (Coleoptera, Curculionidae, Tanymecini)". Contributions of the American Entomological Institute. 19: 1–180.
  5. O’Brien, C.W.; Wibmer, G.J. (1982). "Annotated checklist of the weevils (Curculionidae sensu lato) of North America, Central America, and the West Indies (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea)" (PDF). Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute. 34: 1–382 pp. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2021-12-24. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
  6. Wibmer, G.J.; O’Brien, C.W. (1986). "Annotated checklist of the weevils (Curculionidae sensu lato) of South America (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea)". Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute. 39: 1–563.
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Hadromeropsis


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