Open AccessIMMATURE STAGES OF CURCULIONIDAE (COLEOPTERA): SOME SPECIES IN THE GENUS PANTORHYTES FAUST (PACHYRHYNCHINI) FROM THE PAPUAN REGION AND PHYLOGENETIC IMPLICATIONS OF CERTAIN CHARACTERS *
Author(s) -
May Brenda M.
Publication year - 1978
Publication title -
australian journal of entomology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1440-6055
pISSN - 1326-6756
DOI - 10.1111/j.1440-6055.1978.tb01504.x
Subject(s) - curculionidae , biology , tribe , genus , zoology , phylogenetic tree , pupa , larva , white (mutation) , faust , botany , genetics , literature , sociology , anthropology , gene , art
SUMMARY Larvae and pupae of seven cacao weevils in Division A of the genus Pantorhytes are described and compared. Divergence between P. albopunctulatus Heller, P. biplagiatus (Guérin), P. horni Stibick, P. plutus Oberthür, P. proximus Faust, P. stanleyanus (White) and P. szentivanyi Marshall is minimal. Certain characters of the immature stages suggest that the phylogenetic position of Pantorhytes , and hence the tribe Pachyrhynchini, is parallel to that of Ectemnorhininae and that both groups are in advance of the bulk of Adelognatha (broad‐nosed weevils).