The Identity of Macrocephalus Bidens Olivier, 1795, With A Review of the Genus Toxonotus Lacoidaire (Coleoptera: Anthribidae)

Recently, while checking the descriptions and figures of Anthribid weevils in Olivier’s Entomologie, my attention was drawn to an unfamiliar name. A check of some other important anthribid literature revealed that in the one hundred and fifty-nine years since Olivier’s description and figures were published, the name, Macrocephalus bidens, has vanished from the pertinent anthribid literature of the world with the single exception of SchSnherr’s Genera et Species Curculionidum, where in volumes one and five (1833, 1839) it is listed in "incerti genesis, species mihi invisae". It is not meationed in Lacordaire (1866), Bovie’s catalogue (1906), Wolfrum’s paper on West Indian anthribids (1930), the anthribid portion and supplement of the Coleopterorum Catalogus (Wolfrum, 1929, 1953), .or Blackwelder’s catalogue (1947).