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Published: 2008-06-12
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A review of the Neotropical genus Eucalandra Faust, 1899 (Coleoptera; Curculionidae: Dryophthorinae)

Research Division, Canadian Museum of Nature, P.O. Box 3443, Station D, Ottawa, ON. K1P 6P4, Canada
Coleoptera biodiversity weevils new species bamboo taxonomy

Abstract

The genus Eucalandra Faust is reviewed, including a redescription of the genus, diagnoses of the four previously described species, E. boxi Marshall, E. luteosignata (Blanchard), E. mexicana (Champion), comb. n., and E. setulosa (Gyllenhal), and the description of a new species, E. alas Anderson, sp. n., from Costa Rica. A key to the five now known species is provided, along with illustrations of the species and summaries of their natural history and distribution. These weevils are associated with bamboos.

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