Enoplopactus ortizi (Blanchard)
Female, MLP. Photograph by B. Pianzola
Geographic distribution
Distribution
An occasional minor pest
- Argentina
- Catamarca
- Chaco
- Salta
- Santiago del Estero
Other distribution
PARAGUAY
Bosquerón
Bosquerón
- Naupactus ortizi Blanchard 1891: 493
- Enoplopactus heterothorax Heller 1921: 25
- Enoplopactus ortizi : Hustache 1947: 30
Enoplopactus ortizi is differentiated by the pale green vestiture of dense scales, with a pair of yellow stripes along the elytra, usually covered with waxy exudate; the truncate-conical pronmotum, with postero-lateral angles projecting in a tubercle; and the humeri also bearing a tubercle.
A key to species of Enoplopactus is given in Lanteri (1990c).
A key to species of Enoplopactus is given in Lanteri (1990c).
Sphaeralcea bonariensis (Cav.) Grisebach (= malvavisco) and Gossypium hirsutum L. (Malvaceae) (Lanteri et al. 2002a). Sphaeralcea bonariensis is a shrub native to the Chacoan biogeographic province, distributed in central and northern Argentina, Bolivia, Paraguay and Uruguay.
This species is mainly associated with vegetation typical of the Chacoan biogeographic province.
This species is mainly associated with vegetation typical of the Chacoan biogeographic province.
- BLANCHARD R.A.E. 1891. Sur la faune entomologique du Gran Chaco. Mémoires de la Société Zoologique de France 4: 490-501, illus.
- HELLER K.M. 1921. Nuevos curculiónidos de la Argentina. Anales de la Sociedad Científica Argentina 91: 19-35.
- HUSTACHE A. 1947. Naupactini de l’Argentine et des régions limitrophes (Col. Curculion.). Revista de la Sociedad Entomológica Argentina 13(1-5): 3-146.
- LANTERI A.A. 1990c. Revisión sistemática y análisis filogenético de las especies del género Enoplopactus Heller 1921 (Coleoptera: Curculionidae). Boletín de la Sociedad de Biología de Concepción 61: 71-92.
- 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.
