Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde Serie A (Biologie) Herausgeber: Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde, Rosenstein 1, D-7000 Stuttgart 1 Stuttgarter Bcitr. Naturk. Ser. A Nr. 486 6S. Stuttgart, 1. 12. 1992 The Apionid Subfamiliy Nanophyinae from the Nepal Himalayas, with Descrlption of a New Species''") (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) By Vladimir V. Zherichin, Moscow With 13 figures Summary Nanophyes proles Heller 1915 and N. vulgaris Pajni & Bhateja 1982^ar5"Tee»Mfe^'"from Nepal for the first time. Their systematic position and distributij;iq„^i;e.iiiscu$se.d.. N. s^ni sha-rensis n. sp. is described. Zusammenfassung Nanophyes proles Heller 1915 und TV. vulgaris Pajni & Bhateja 1982 werden zum ersten Mal aus Nepal nachgewiesen, ihre systematische Stellung und ihre Verbreitung werden diskutiert. N. sanisharensis n. sp. wird beschrieben. 1. Introduction The subfamily Nanophyinae is a compact natural group of apionid weevils distri-buted widely in the Eastern hemisphere and in North America but especially abun-dant in the Oriental and Afrotropical regions. Though the Asiatic fauna is rieh and diverse no Nanophyinae have been recorded from Nepal tili now. Three species from a single Nepalese locality are represented in the materials kindly submitted to me for examination by Prof. Dr. Jochen Marxens and Dr. Woligang StuA-WALLER. The small number of species is almost certainiy a result of collecting me-thods: all Nanophyinae live on plants (and Oriental species mostly on trees) while ground and litter dwellers constitute the bulk of the collection. '•') Results of the Himalaya Expeditions of J. Marxens, no. 183. -I-or no. 182 see: Stutt-garter Beitr. Naturk. (Ä) 485, 1992. -J. M. sponsorcd by Deutscher Akademischer Aus-tauschdienst and Deutsche Torschungsgemcinschaft.
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