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Issue: Vol. 5575 No. 2: 23 Jan. 2025
Type: Article
Published: 2025-01-23
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5575.2.10
Page range: 339-345
Abstract views: 115
PDF downloaded: 4

A new species of Rimboda Heller (Coleoptera, Curculionidae, Conoderinae, Othippiini) reared from Distylium racemosum Siebold & Zucc. in the Ryukyu Islands, Japan

Shonan Fujisawa Junior & Senior High School; Keio University; 5466 Endo; Fujisawa; Kanagawa; 252-0816 Japan
Environmental Science and Informatics Section; Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology; 1919-1 Tancha; Onna-son; Kunigami- gun; Okinawa; 904-0495 Japan
Systematic Entomology Laboratory; ARS; USDA; National Museum of Natural History; Washington; DC 20560; USA; Oak Ridge Associated Universities; Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education; Oak Ridge; TN 3783; USA
Coleoptera Conoderinae island endemism protected natural area Yambaru National Park species discovery Nansei Islands

Abstract

The genus Rimboda has hitherto contained six species from Indonesia, Malaysia, and Philippines. Here, Rimboda saekii Fujisawa & Lewis new species is described from specimens collected in the subtropical forests of Amami-Oshima, Tokunoshima, Okinawa-jima Island, and Ishigaki-jima Island, Japan. Specimens were reared from Distylium racemosum (Hamamelidaceae). The occurrence of Rimboda in southwestern Japan represents a significant northward extension in the known geographic range of the genus. We provide habitus photographs, a 3D model and illustrations of the male and female genitalia of R. saekii, as well as a checklist to the world species of Rimboda.

 

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