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Figure Captions.
Fig. 1. Anthonomus lecontei, female, habitus, Great Smoky.
Fig. 2. Anthonomus lecontei, female, habitus, Great Smoky.
Fig. 7. Anthonomus lecontei, male, aedeagus, Black Mts., NC
Fig. 8. Anthonomus lecontei, male, metathoracic leg, Black Mts., NC
Literature.
Burke 1975:59-60. LeConte (1876) recognized the possibility that weevils which he considered as A. scutellatus might not be conspecific with Gyllenhal's A. scutellatus and, consequently, suggested that if the two proved to be distinct the species he treated could be known as A. variegatus. Subsequent authors followed LeConte in assignment of this rather common northeastern and northcentral U.S. weevil to A. scutellatus. As it turned out upon comparison of the type of A. scutellatus Gyllenhal with considerable material of A. scutellatus of LeConte and subsequent authors, the two indeed represent different species. A. variegatus LeConte is an available name but is preoccupied by Anthonomus variegatus Suffrian, therefore, LeConte's species must be renamed. The type series of A. lecontei consists of 8 specimens in the LeConte Collection (MCZC) as follows: 2 females and 1 male, each of which bears a yellow disc and, in adition, 1 of the females is also labeled "A. scutellatus Gyll." in LeConte's handwriting; 1 male bearing pink disc; 1 male labeled "Cambr./21.2.74/L."; 1 female bearing orange disc; and 2 males labelled "1458." LeConte (1876) listed the species from "Massachussets, Texas, Missouri." The specimen bearing the pink disc, and the one labeled "Cambr[idge]" are probably the Massachusetts specimens listed. Those bearing the yellow discs are probably the Missouri specimens; the female with the handwritten label "A. scutellatus Gyll." is herein selected as lectotype. It is not clear which of these, if any, represent the Texas record. LeConte's orange disc designates the southeastern U.S. and his designatgion for Texas was a dark blood red disc which is not represented in the series. The origin of the 2 males labeled "1458" is not known.
Burke (1968:53-54) described pupae of Anthonomus scutellatus Gyllenhal from flower heads of Aster sp., probably divaricatus L. Silver Springs, Maryland. "Dietz (1891) and Blatchley and Leng (1916) placed scutellatus in a group with nigrinus, xanthocnemus and several other apparently not very closely related species. It is obvious from male genitalia and other adult characters that this species belongs in the Squamsous Group. This assignment is also supported by pupal characters"....