Saurops cavifrons (Hustache)
Female, MLP. Photograph by P. Hernández.
Geographic distribution
Distribution
No economic damages registered
- Argentina
- Santiago del Estero
Other distribution
- Brachystylus cavifrons Hustache 1926: 169
- Saurops cavifrons : Kuschel 1955: 309
Saurops is a monotypic genus similar to Platyomus Salberg and Aptolemus Schoenherr (Lanteri & del Río 2017). All of them have broad rostrum and very wide and flat antennal scapes.
In Saurops cavifrons the scaly vestiture is pale-brown or dark-brown, the eyes are flat and the pronotum and elytra are elongate and slender.
In Saurops cavifrons the scaly vestiture is pale-brown or dark-brown, the eyes are flat and the pronotum and elytra are elongate and slender.
Unknown.
It is probably associated with vegetation of the Chacoan biogeographic province.
It is probably associated with vegetation of the Chacoan biogeographic province.
- HUSTACHE A. 1926. Contribution à l’étude des Curculionides de la République Argentina (première note). Anales del Museo Nacional de Historia Natural Bernardino Rivadavia 34: 155-261, illus.
- KUSCHEL G. 1955. Nuevas sinonimias y anotaciones sobre Curculionoidea (Coleoptera). Revista Chilena de Entomología, Santiago de Chile 4:261-312.
- LANTERI A.A. & DEL RÍO M.G. 2017. Phylogeny of the tribu Naupactini (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) based on morphological characters. Systematic entomology 42(2): 429-447.
