A STRIKING NEW SPECIES OF MACROCOPTURUS HELLER, 1895 (COLEOPTERA: CURCULIONIDAE: CONODERINAE) FROM PANAMA: RAISING THE QUESTION OF COLORATION

作者：Hespenheide Henry A^*

来源：Coleopterists Bulletin, 2017, 71(1): 74-76.

DOI：10.1649/0010-065X-71.1.74

• taxonomy
• adaptation
• aposematic coloration
• mimicry
• Copturus
• Hoplocopturus
• Paramnemyne
• Poecilogaster

Macrocopturus richardpackeri Hespenheide, new species, is described from Panama and named in honor of Richard Roland Edward Packer. The possibility of mimicry and the necessity for an adaptive explanation are discussed for this and a complex of red-spotted species in several conoderine genera.

• 出版日期2017-3