Baris

Belongs within: Conoderinae.

Baris is a genus of weevils, species of which feed on the foliage and roots of a wide range of flowering plants. Morimoto & Yoshihara (1996) separated it from related genera on the basis of mandibular dentition.

Characters (from Morimoto & Yoshihara 1996): Rostrum more or less curved; mandibles decussate internally, apical tooth pointed internally, a little smaller than first marginal tooth, posterior margin of apical tooth shorter than anterior margin of first marginal tooth; body ovate or oblong-ovate, often bare; pygidium rather broadly exposed, elytra smooth, not tuberculate; pro-, meso- and metasterna interrupted in continuity by depressed or oblique mesosternum; prosternal process narrower than a coxa; femora edentate; tibiae with longitudinally confluent punctures, more or less multisulcate, rounded near base; tarsi with five segments and two claws; third segment broad, deeply emarginate; fourth segment small, invisible; claws free, more or less divergent, each claw curved.

<==Baris Germar 1817 (see below for synonymy)A02
    |--B. admirabilis Hustache 1951H51
    |--‘Baridius’ amoenulaM86
    |--B. argentinica Hustache 1951 [=B. argentinensis ms]H51
    |--‘Baridius’ australis Boisduval 1835M86
    |--B. beckeri Bondar 1949 [incl. B. ciliata Hustache 1959]K83
    |--B. bosqi Hustache 1951H51
    |--B. brasiliense Hustache 1951H51
    |--B. callaidis Chv. 1880 [incl. B. humeralis]FS90
    |--B. catamarcaensis Hustache 1951 [=B. biseriata ms]H51
    |--B. ciliata Hustache 1951H51
    |--B. cordobaense Hustache 1951H51
    |--B. dilatataG05
    |--B. dispersesquamulata Hustache 1951H51
    |--B. fulvoapicata Hustache 1951H51
    |--B. modica Boh. 1844FS90
    |--B. morenoi Hustache 1951H51
    |--B. multistriata Chv. 1880FS90
    |--B. nemicasa Hustache 1951H51
    |--‘Baridius’ pulchellus Lucas 1846E12
    |--B. pygidialis Hustache 1951H51
    |--‘Baridius’ quadrisignataM86
    |--B. reflexa Hustache 1951H51
    |--B. rubricollis Hustache 1951H51
    |--B. rufipes Boh. 1836FS90
    |--B. rustica Hustache 1951H51
    |--B. santafea Hustache 1951H51
    |--B. scissa Chv. 1880 [incl. B. guadeloupensis, B. picea Chv. 1880]FS90
    |--B. scolopacea Germar 1824HF03
    |--B. semiopaca Reitter 1895HF03
    |--B. spadiceoidea Hustache 1951K83, H51 [=B. spadicedoideaK83]
    |--B. timida (Rossi 1790)HF03
    |--B. torquata Hustache 1938D09
    |--B. vianaiML05
    `--B. violaceoamethystina Hustache 1951H51

Baris Germar 1817 [incl. Aegyptobaris Pic 1889, Baridius Schoenherr 1825, Cyphirhinus Schoenherr 1826, Turkmenobaris Zaslavskij 1956]^A02

*Type species of generic name indicated

References

[A02] Anderson, R. S. 2002. Curculionidae Latreille 1802. In: Arnett, R. H., Jr, M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley & J. H. Frank (eds) American Beetles vol. 2. Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea pp. 722–815. CRC Press.

[D09] Davis, S. R. 2009. Morphology of Baridinae and related groups (Coleoptera, Curculionidae). ZooKeys 10: 1–136.

[E12] Evenhuis, N. L. 2012. Publication and dating of the Exploration Scientifique de l’Algérie: Histoire Naturelle des Animaux Articulés (1846–1849) by Pierre Hippolyte Lucas. Zootaxa 3448: 1–61.

[FS90] Fleutiaux, E., & A. Sallé. 1890. Liste des coléoptères de la Guadeloupe et descriptions d’espèces nouvelles. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France, 6^e série 9: 351–484.

[G05] Grissell, E. E. 2005. A review of North American species of Microdontomerus Crawford (Torymidae: Hymenoptera). Journal of Hymenoptera Research 14 (1): 22–65.

[HF03] Halperin, J., & J. Fremuth. 2003. Contribution to the knowledge of Curculionoidea (Coleoptera) and their host plants in Israel. Zoology in the Middle East 29: 93–100.

[H51] Hustache, A. 1951. Nouveaux Barinae Sud Américains. Deuxième partie—Barina. Boletim do Museu Nacional, nova serie, Zoologia 96: 1–78.

[K83] Kuschel, G. 1983. New synonymies and combinations of Baridinae from the Neotropic and Nearctic regions (Coleoptera: Curculionidae). Coleopterists Bulletin 37 (1): 34–44.

[ML05] Marvaldi, A. E., & A. A. Lanteri. 2005. Key to higher taxa of South American weevils based on adult characters (Coleoptera, Curculionoidea). Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 78: 65–87.

[M86] Masters, G. 1886. Catalogue of the described Coleoptera of Australia. Part V. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, series 2, 1 (3): 585–686.

Morimoto, K., & K. Yoshihara. 1996. On the genera of the Oriental Baridinae (Coleoptera, Curculionidae). Esakia 36: 1–59.