Skip to main content Skip to main navigation menu Skip to site footer
Responsive image
Issue: Vol. 33 No. 1: 10 May. 2002
Type: Article
Published: 2002-05-10
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.33.1.1
Page range: 1–6
Abstract views: 49
PDF downloaded: 7

Baezia vulcania sp. n., an endogeous weevil from La Palma I. (Canary Is.) (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Molytinae)

Depto. de Biodiversidad y Biología Evolutiva, Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (CSIC). José Gutiérrez Abascal, 2. E-28006 Madrid SPAIN.
C/. San Miguel 9. 38700 – S/C. de La Palma. S/C. de Tenerife (Islas Canarias) SPAIN
Coleoptera Curculionidae Molytinae Baezia vulcania sp. n. endogeous edaphobiontic La Palma I. Canary Islands.

Abstract

A new species of endogeous, eyeless Molytine weevil collected in La Palma island (Canary Is.), Baezia vulcania sp. n., is described and compared with its closest ally, B. litoralis Alonso-Zarazaga & García, 1999. Biological data are provided. The genus is new to La Palma I.

References

  1. Alonso-Zarazaga, M.A. & García, R. (1999) Baezia litoralis gen. n. y sp. n. de coleóptero edafobio de la isla de Tenerife (Col. Curculionidae, Molytinae). Vulcania, 3, 48 – 55.

    García, R. (1996) Los artrópodos de la cueva de los Palmeros (La Palma, islas Canarias). In: Oromí, P. (Ed). 7th International Symposium of Vulcanospeleology, Santa Cruz de La Palma, Canary Islands, Nov. 1994., Los Libros de la Frontera, Sant Cugat del Vallés, pp. 127 – 132.