Fig. 1. disjunctus

Fig. 2. disjunctus

Fig. 8. disjunctus	Fig. 7. disjunctus
Fig. 13. disjunctus	Fig. 14. disjunctus

Fig. 1. disjunctus
Fig. 2. disjunctus
Fig. 7. disjunctus
Fig. 8. disjunctus
Fig. 13. disjunctus
Fig. 14. disjunctus

Literature

Anthonomus disjunctus LeConte Burke 1975:59. Burke (1971) indicated that A. blatchleyi was possibly a synonym of A. disjunctus but adequate material to make a decision was not available at that time. Additional specimens of significance to the solution of the problem were subsequently provided by D. B. Gates who reared a series assignable to A. disjunctus from the same plant species in Harrison Co., Miss. This series shows considerable variability in size (2.0-3.5 mm.) and color pattern. Some of the smaller specimens closely resemble the type of A. blatchleyi while the larger, more distinctly vittate specimens are similar to the lectotype of A. disjunctus. In view of this I consider the type of A. blatchleyi to be a depauperate, teneral specimen of A. disjunctus. A second male specimen in the LeConte series of A. disjunctus bearing a yellow disc and the labels "Type 2064" and "J. L. LeConte coll." is designated a paralectotype.

Anthonomus disjunctus LeConte. Dietz 1891:232. Hab. Georgia, Texas, Maryland, New Jersey. Some specimens are clothed uniformly with white scales with scarcely an indication of vittae.

Anthonomus disjunctus LeConte. Burke (1968:53) described the pupa from Chrysopsis mariana from Glen Echo, Washington, DC.

Anthonomus disjunctus LeConte. Ahmad and Burke (1972:56) described larvae from Chrysopsis mariana.

Anthonomus disjunctus LeConte. Blatchley and Leng (1916:310-311) provided a brief description of A. disjunctus and stated "Various points in New Jersey and at Charlotte and Montauk, N.Y.; July 16-Sept. 23. Ranges from New York to Illinois, Georgia and Texas. Pierce (1907:217) records it as breeding in the heads of Heterotheca subaxillaris Lam. in Texas, the larvae feeding on the achenes."

Anthonomus disjunctus LeConte Burke (1971:48) listed Epimechus nivosus Blatchley as a new synonym of A. disjunctus LeConte and stated Anthonomus blatchleyi Schenkling and Marshall (= australis Blatchley, not Boisduval 1835) may eventually enter into this synonymy. A. blatchleyi is either identical with or closely related to disjunctus. The type and other material of blatchleyi I have examined are on the average smaller and paler in color than specimens and disjunctus; however, the blatchleyi specimens are teneral and may be depauperate. No decision can be made on this problem until additional material is available.

Blatchley and Leng (1916:309-311) placed A. tectus LeConte, A. squamulatus Dietz, A. molochinus Dietz, A. rufipes LeConte, and A. disjunctus LeConte in "Group G" which they characterized as "...from 2.7 to 3.5 mm. in size ... the upper and lower surfaces more or less clothed with scales, which vary in shape from almost round to very elongate and hair-like. ... All have the femora armed with a single tooth beneath."