Rhinoscapha maclayi

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Rhinoscapha maclayi
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Rhinoscapha maclayi. Museum specimen
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Curculionidae
Subfamily: Entiminae
Genus: Rhinoscapha
Species:R. maclayi
Binomial name
Rhinoscapha maclayi
MacLeay, W. J., 1885

Rhinoscapha maclayi is a species of true weevil family. [1] [2]

Curculionidae family of insects

The Curculionidae are the family of the "true" weevils. They are one of the largest animal families, with 6,800 genera and 83,000 species described worldwide.

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Description

Rhinoscapha maclayi can reach a length of about 30 millimetres (1.2 in).

Black, nitid; head densely punctured in front, lightly behind, covered with a thin ashen pubescence and furnished with a number of strong hairs about the mouth. The extremity of the snout as broad as the head. Thorax scarcely longer than broad, broader at the base than the apex, and also broader than the head, very regularly marked, and with a depression on the anterior part of the median line. A broad depressed space on the side and under surface of the apex of the thorax is densely covered with reddish golden scales, and on each side from the middle to the base there is a broad vitta of the same. The elytra are convex, broader than the thorax, with a prominent humeral callus, and pointed at the apex ; on each elytron are nine rows of large oblong punctures, the intervals scarcely raised ; the extreme apex is mucronate. A sutural vitta including the scutellum, a broadish fascia behind the shoulder and not reaching the suture, and a narrower rather curved fascia behind the middle and extending to the suture, are densely clothed with golden scales. The metasternum is similarly clothed. The legs are sparingly punctured, each puncture with a short seta. [3]

Distribution

This species occurs in New Guinea, in the Maclay Coast, which Nicholas Miklouho-Maclay named.

Nicholas Miklouho-Maclay Russian explorer and scientist

Nicholas Miklouho-Maclay was a Russian explorer, ethnologist, anthropologist and biologist who became famous as one of the earliest scientists to settle among and study a people in New Guinea who had never seen a European.

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References

  1. ↑ Zipcodezoo
  2. ↑ Global species
  3. ↑ Original description by William Macleay - THE INSECTS OF THE MACLAY COAST, NEW GUINEA


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