Mecocephala curculionoides Pirán, 1959

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Mecocephala curculionoides Pirán, 1959

( Figures 1c , 29 ; Table 1)

Mecocephala curculionoides Pirán, 1959: 41 ; 1970: 126; Grazia 1986: 52; Schwertner et al. 2002: 179–181, figs 4, 9, 14, 19; Grazia and Schwertner 2008: 234; Coscarón 2017: 227.

Type material examined. ARGENTINA: PASTOREO GRANDE: Holotype, m*, Misiones [Argentina], November 1954, A. A. Pirán, leg. // M. c urculionoides 1955, det. A. A. Pirán // Holotypus ( MACN) .

Diagnosis. Body colour light brown. Antennomere 3 convex dorsally. Bucculae sinuous. Outline of anterolateral margins of pronotum crenulate, not punctate.

Male genitalia. Pygophore sub-rectangular. Posterolateral angles rounded. Superior layer of ventral rim with a pair of processes. Inferior layer of ventral rim with a pair of processes.

Female unknown.

Measurements. See Table 1.

Remarks. See Schwertner et al. (2002), p. 181 for description.

Distribution. Argentina (Misiones) ( Figure 29 ).

Figures

Figure 1. Head and pronotum of Mecocephala in dorsal view. (a) Mecocephala acuminata; (b) Mecocephala bonariensis; (c) Mecocephala curculionoides; (d) Mecocephala magna; (e) Mecocephala maldonadensis; (f) Mecocephala zikani. Scale bars = 0.5 mm.

Figure 29. Map showing the geographical distribution of Mecocephala and Paramecocephala species. Yellow star = new record of P. subsolana.