A new species of the genus Paracompsus Legalov, 2003 (Coleoptera: Attelabidae) from Vietnam

Abstract

A new species of leaf-rolling weevils, Paracompsus krivokhatskyi sp. n. from Northern Vietnam, is described and illustrated. This species is close to P. nigrofasciatus (Pajni, Haq et Gandhi, 1987) from East India and Southwest China, and differs from it in the smooth, non-wrinkled, longer temples and in the shape of the basal sclerite of the endophallus. In P. krivokhatskyi sp. n. the basal sclerite is larger, its apical lobe weaker protrudes above the surface of the sclerite, and it is wider. In P. nigrofasciatus the basal sclerite is smaller, its apical lobe stronger protrudes above the surface of the sclerite, and it is narrower. The new species differs from the Vietnamese P. paramicros Legalov, 2007 in the large body size, narrower head, slightly convex second elytral interstriae in the basal quarter, black-brown dorsum of the rostrum, middle of the forehead, vertex, neck, longitudinal stripe in the middle of the pronotum, and yellow-brown base of the elytra, the maculae on the 4th–6th interstriae, lateral margins and the apex of the elytra. This is the second representative of the genus Paracompsus Legalov, 2003 in Vietnam.

Keywords

• curculionoidea
• apoderinae
• apoderini
• new species
• vietnam