A Review Of The Curculio From China With Descriptions Of New Taxa. Part II. The Curculio Alboscutellatus Group (Curculionidae: Curculioninae: Cyrculionini)

Abstract

A key to the species of the Curculio alboscutellatus (Roelofs) species group from China and descriptions of new taxa are presented. Descriptions of the following new taxa are included: Curculio jilinensis new species, C. gressitti new species, C. krissiae new species, C. lisae new species, C. latusrostris new species, C. shopfneri new species, C. francisi new species, C. marioi new species, C. matthewi new species, C. ochromaculata new species, C. richardi new species.

Also, redescriptions are provided of C. alboscutellatus (Roelofs), C. chevrolati (Faust), C. scutellaris (Chevrolat), C. simius spretus (Heller) and C. tonkinensis (Heller). Type specimens are deposited in the Institute of Zoology, Academia Sinica, Beijing, China and the California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, California.