Species Information - Cyrtomon inhalatus (Germar)

Cyphus inhalatus Germar 1824: 430 Germar 1824: 430
Neocyphus inhalatus : Dalla Torre et al. 1936: 9
Cyphus gibber inhalatus : Kuschel 1958: 794
Cyrtomon gibber inhalatus : Wibmer & O’Brien 1986: 48
Cyrtomon inhalatus : Lanteri 1990a: 397

Cyrtomon inhalatus is similar to C. luridus and distinguishes because the vestiture is light green, the sides of the pronotum are more curved, the elytra are broader and more rugose, and the spermatheca and spermathecal duct are different. Both species are sympatric in Misiones province.
Mouthparts of this species were described in detail by Díaz et al. (1990a b) and characters of the vestiture, by Coscarón et al. (1991).

A key to species of Cyrtomon is included in Lanteri (1990a) and in Lanteri & del Río (2016).

Solanaceae, especially Cestrum parqui L’Hér. and Solanum glaucophyllum Desf. (“duraznillo negro” and “duraznillo blanco”), and cultivated Solanaceae as Solanum tuberosum L. and Nicotiana tabacum L. (Lanteri et al. 2002a). Solanum glaucophyllum is a toxic plant which geographic distribution is similar to those of C. inhalatus and C. luridus (Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay).It was also found attacking cotton Gossypium hirsutum L. (Malvaceae) and Medicago sativa L. (Fabaceae) in Argentina (Brewer et al. 1976, Lanteri 1990a).

Mainly associated to vegetation of the Paranaense and Yungas forests, and Chaco and Cerrado biogeographic provinces.

GERMAR E.F. 1824. Insectorum species novae aut minus cognitae, descriptionibus illustratae. Hendel and Sons, Halae. Vol. 1, Coleoptera, XXIV + 624 pp., illus. [Curc. pp. 185-461, pls. I-II].
DALLA TORRE K.W. ET AL. 1936. Coleopterorum Catalogus. Junk, ´s-Gravenhage. Pars 147, Curculionidae: Brachyderinae I, vol. 27, pp. 1-132.
KUSCHEL G. 1958. Neotropische Rüsselkäfer aus dem Museum G. Frey (Col. Curcul.). Entomologischen Arbeiten aus dem Museum G Frey 9(3): 750-798, illus.
BREWER M.M. ET AL. 1976. Gorgojos de la alfalfa en la región semiárida de la Argentina. Revista Bolsa de Cereales de Buenos Aires 2903: 3-15.
WIBMER G. & O’BRIEN C.W. 1986. Annotated checklist of the weevils (Curculionidae sensu lato) of South America (Coleoptera: Curculionidae). Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 39, 563 pp.
DÍAZ N.B. ET AL. 1990a. Importancia taxonómica de las piezas bucales en la tribu Naupactini. I. Género Cyrtomon Schoenherr y taxa afines (Coleoptera: Curculionidae). Revista Brasileira de Entomologia 34(4): 861-876.
LANTERI A.A. 1990a. Revisión sistemática del género Cyrtomon Schönherr (Coleoptera: Curculionidae). Revista Brasileira de Entomología 34(2): 387-402.
DÍAZ N.B. ET AL. 1990b. Importancia taxonómica de las piezas bucales en la tribu Naupactini. II. Las especies del género Cyrtomon (Coleoptera: Curculionidae). Neotrópica 36(96): 93-99.
COSCARON M.C. ET AL. 1991. Importancia taxonómica del revestimiento tegumentario en la tribu Naupactini I. Género Cyrtomon y taxa afines (Coleoptera: Curculionidae). Neotrópica 37(97): 31-54.
LANTERI A.A. ET AL. 2002a. Gorgojos de la Argentina y sus plantas huéspedes. Tomo I: Apionidae y Curculionidae. Publicación Especial de la Sociedad Entomológica Argentina Nº 1, 98 pp.
LANTERI A.A. & DEL RÍO M.G. 2016. Taxonomy and cladistics of the group of genera related to Cyrtomon Schöenherr (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Naupactini). Revista de la Sociedad Entomológica Argentina 75(1-2): 55-77.