PAN-PACIFIC ENTOMOLOGIST 
Vol. 55, No. 1, pp. 61-71 
NEW HOST RECORDS FOR ACANTHOSCELIDES 
(COLEOPTERA: BRUCHIDAE) 
Clarence Dan Johnson 
Dept, of Biol. Sci., Northern Arizona Univ., Flagstaff, 86011 
Many new records for species of the seed beetle genus Acanthoscelides 
have recently been published in revisions (Johnson, 1970), new species de¬ 
scriptions and ecological papers (Johnson and Kingsolver, 1971; Johnson 
1974a, b; 1977a, b, c; Bottimer, 1969a, 1969b). Additional records for the 
genus have become available and need to be published so that they may be 
used in review ecological and taxonomic papers currently in preparation. I 
have listed these new, unpublished records below. The last two records are 
from the Tiliaceae but the rest are from the Leguminosae. Those species of 
Acanthoscelides listed by number were examined and found to be suffi¬ 
ciently different from named forms or too variable to be given a name. 
Revisionary studies currently under way will provide names for these en¬ 
tities in the near future. 
Acknowledgments 
I thank J. M. Kingsolver for verifications of identifications of bruchids; 
D. H. Janzen for host records; D. E. Bright and E. Becker for making 
available the host records of L. J. Bottimer; R. Liesner, T. Croat, J. Strother 
and R. Barneby for identifications of the plants; and M. Johnson and R. 
Johnson for help in collecting seeds and plants. 
Special thanks are due to the Insect Identification and Beneficial Insect 
Introduction Institute, U.S. Department of Agriculture under Grants 12-14- 
100-9187(33) and 12-14-100-9970(33) which provided funds for collecting 
most of the records; and National Science Foundation Grant DEB78-05962 
which provided funds for compilation of the data. 
In the text of this paper, C. D. Johnson is abbreviated CDJ and L. J. 
Bottimer LJB. 
Acanthoscelides aureolas (Horn) 
1. Astragalus bisulcatus (Hook.) Gray: Colorado. Weld Co.: Pawnee 
Grassland Pasture, Nunn, 6 August 1971 (J. Chu). 
2. A. bisulcatus var. bisulcatus: Utah. Uintah Co.: ca 4900', 3 mi N 
Jensen, 14 July 1977 (CDJ #52-77). 
3. A. drummondii Douglas: Colorado. Weld Co.: Pawnee Grassland Pas¬ 
ture, Nunn, 2 & 30 July & 6 August 1971 (J. Chu). 
