taxonID	type	description	language	source
C17DA1B8666F5F0E830297AFCAD5ECF2.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis. Large body size, 15 - 17 mm in males, 16 - 20 mm in females; body color black with scattered golden brown and white scales; rostrum extremely long in male and (especially) female, very slightly uniformly curved, ca. as long as elytra in male, 1.5 - 2.0 x elytral length in female; pronotal postocular lobes large, completely covering eyes when rostrum in repose, discal area of pronotum projected anteriorly over the head; mesoscutellum strongly produced, bulbous; elytra with intervals 3, 5, 7, 8, 9 subcarinate, raised throughout various portions of length, all other intervals more or less flat; humerus strongly produced laterally, angulate, lateral margins of elytra convergent from humerus to apex; base of elytra ca. 2 x width of base of pronotum; femoral teeth large, broad, distinct.	en	Anderson, Robert S. (2021): Conotrachelus terryerwini, a majestic new species of Curculionidae (Molytinae, Conotrachelini) from Costa Rica. ZooKeys 1044: 721-727, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1044.62722, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1044.62722
C17DA1B8666F5F0E830297AFCAD5ECF2.taxon	etymology	Etymology. It gives me great pleasure to name this species after my friend and colleague Terry L. Erwin (1940 - 2020). Terry completed his PhD at the University of Alberta where he studied under the legendary carabidologist George E. Ball, although some 20 years earlier than I. My close relationship with Terry dates back to the early 1990 s when the famous tropical ecologist Dan Janzen asked Terry and me to convene some meetings to plan the Coleoptera component of the funding application for his All Taxon Biodiversity Inventory (ATBI) of the Area de Conservacion Guanacaste in Costa Rica, and later, an extended proposal for the entire country of Costa Rica. We invited numerous Coleoptera taxonomists to participate in these planning meetings, to visit and study in the huge INBio collections, and to conduct field work. Although the project was never funded to the extent hoped for, many of us spent many hours together in the collections and associated hostel and developed life-long friendships. During subsequent years Terry would include an image of me, soaking and filthy from fieldwork in Panama, in many of his talks to illustrate that the profession of a tropical biologist was not easy or clean work. It was always the source of many good laughs and Terry always enjoyed showing it.	en	Anderson, Robert S. (2021): Conotrachelus terryerwini, a majestic new species of Curculionidae (Molytinae, Conotrachelini) from Costa Rica. ZooKeys 1044: 721-727, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1044.62722, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1044.62722
