FNZ 45 - Nemonychidae, Belidae, Brentidae (Insecta: Coleoptera: Curculionoidea) - Conventions
Kuschel, G 2003. Nemonychidae, Belidae, Brentidae (Insecta: Coleoptera: Curculionoidea). Fauna of New Zealand 45, 100 pages.
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ISSN 0111-5383 (print),
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ISBN 0-478-09348-9 (print),
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Published 28 Apr 2003
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Pouches in females
Any accessory tubular or bag-like growth on the female genitalia and terminalia, observed by Kuschel (1987), were classified according to location without specification of their functions. It has since become patent that most, if not all, are of a glandular nature. It was then expressly stated then that the tergal and sternal pouches 'contain filamentous microorganisms attached to the chitinous walls . ending in elongate (Lasiorhynchus) or oval (Karocolens) head-like structures with radiating canaliculi visible only on electron microscope micrographs (figs 32-36)'. Further work on these pouches has revealed that those 'filamentous microorganisms' were simply parts of glandular tissue.
A pouch or gland that missed being listed in my paper of 1987 was the well known colleterial gland, attached to the posterior wall at the base of the common oviduct at the anterior end of the vagina in some Coleoptera, including Curculionoidea (Fig. 135, 136). It is present in some of the New Zealand apionine genera as a rather deeply obcordate structure in outline, due to two opaque or slightly pigmented apical lobes (Fig. 136, 148, 156) . The gland has crescent or scale-like dark patterns and a dense, papillate or villi-like outer surface (Fig. 167), appearing under high magnification as if covered in dense, fine hairs. The viscid substance secreted by the gland glues eggs together, or attaches them to surfaces, or seals them off after placement in holes or cracks. A similar function may be attributed to the tergal and sternal glands of Lasiorhynchus (Fig. 104, 106).
Conventions
It is useful to know where authoritatively identified specimens are held. The institutions housing primary and secondary types of species dealt with in the present paper are listed below. The following acronyms for repositories are used:
AMNZ Auckland Museum, Auckland, New Zealand
CMNZ Canterbury Museum, Christchurch, New Zealand
FRNZ Forest Research, Rotorua, New Zealand
LUNZ Entomology Research Museum, Lincoln University, New Zealand
MONZ Museum of New Zealand, Wellington, New Zealand
NZAC New Zealand Arthropod Collection, Landcare Research, Auckland, New Zealand
OMNZ Otago Museum, Dunedin, New Zealand
Whenever the New Zealand Arthropod Collection (NZAC) does not house the primary type of a described species, a specimen compared with the primary type and agreeing with it is deposited in it, with a special yellow label. The yellow label has the name of the species as originally published, the name of the person who compared it, and the year the comparison was done.
The area codes of Crosby et al. (1976, 1998) are used in collection records.