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Issue: Vol. 3455 No. 1: 6 Sep. 2012
Type: Articles
Published: 2012-09-06
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3455.1.4
Page range: 69–80
Abstract views: 33
PDF downloaded: 26

First record of the genus Bordoniola Osella, 1987 in Ecuador with description of five new species (Coleoptera: Curculionidae, Raymondionyminae)

Department of Animal Biology and Marine Ecology, Messina University, Viale Ferdinando Stagno D’Alcontres, 31 98164 Messina, Italy
World Biodiversity Association, Via A. Vespucci, 11/A, 31033 Castelfranco Veneto, Italy
Via XXIV Maggio, 20, 37126 Verona, Italy
Coleoptera Curculionidae Raymondionyminae Bordoniola new species Ecuador blind weevils soil fauna

Abstract

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.

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