Curculionidae, Latreille, 1802

Curculionidae View in CoL new records

Philinna gibbicollis Hustache, 1939

( Fig. 2 a-d)

Diagnosis. – Philinna gibicollis can be distinguished from P. bicristata ( Fig. 2d) by the following characters: the pronotum has a conical strong medial gibbosity, in frontal view widened and vertical above the head, and the elytral humeral angle without dense tufts of elongate setae.

Host plants. –Unknown.

Previous distribution range. – South America (Wibmer and O’Brien 1986; Anzaldo, 2017). First record for Panama.

Desmosomus longipes Perty, 1832

( Fig. 3 a-d)

Diagnosis. – D. longipes can be distinguished from other members of subtribes Cholina or Rhinastina recorded in Panama by the following characters: rostrum brownish, smoothed. Head scarcely punctate, blackish, with two dense yellowish pubescent longitudinal bands, starting in the metarostrum following toward frons and between eyes, remaining surface glabrous. Prothorax rugose, with three yellowish longitudinal bands, remaining surface blackish. Elytra crenulate, elytral suture and lateral longitudinal bands yellowish, remaining surface glabrous, blackish, legs brownish.