Open AccessAFROTROPICAL TYCHIUS: DESCRIPTION OF FIVE NEW SPECIES AND DESIGNATION OF A NEOTYPE (Coleoptera, Curculionidae)
Author(s) -
Roberto Caldara
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
fragmenta entomologica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.403
H-Index - 6
eISSN - 2284-4880
pISSN - 0429-288X
DOI - 10.4081/fe.2013.24
Subject(s) - curculionidae , weevil , biology , genus , zoology , botany
Five new species belonging to the weevil genus Tychius are described: T. barclayi n. sp. (South Africa), T. gambiensis n. sp. (Gambia), T. muellerarum n. sp. (South Africa), T. rufotheivorus n. sp. (South Africa), T. stalsi n. sp. (South Africa). Moreover the neotype of T. suturellus Gyllenhal, 1836 is designated. Descriptions, photographs of their habitus and figures of rostra and genitalia are given
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