A new species of the genus Pimelerodius Vanin from the Amazon Region, with notes on the geografic distribution of Pimelerodius motacilla (Boheman) (Coleoptera, Curculionidae, Otidocephalini)

Abstract

During the task of identification of the indeterminate Erodiscina-Oditocephalini specimens deposited in the collections of the Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo (MZSP), since the publication of the last review (Vanin, 1986), the first author (DSC) came across several specimens of the genus Pimelerodius Vanin, 1986 collected in Itacoatiara, AM. All specimens belonged to the ex-collection Von Diringshoffen, acquired by the Museu de Zoologia in the decade of 1980 and mounted in subsequent years. Alonso-Zarazaga and Lyal (1999) published a world catalogue of families and genera of Curculionoidea, which introduced some changes at the higher systematic levels in the classification of weevils. The Otidocephalinae and Erodiscini, taxa considered till then respectively at subfamily and tribe levels, were treated as tribe Otidocephalini and subtribe Erodiscina. After Vanin (1986), only two papers on