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Issue: Vol. 4418 No. 4: 9 May 2018
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2018-05-09
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4418.4.6
Page range: 393–396
Abstract views: 35
PDF downloaded: 4

Both non-type species of Molytophilus (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Molytinae) are transferred to Oreoscotus

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Coleoptera Curculionidae Molytinae

Abstract

Type specimens of all three nominal species of the East African genus Molytophilus Hartmann are studied and illustrated. The genus is taxonomically restricted to include only the type species M. carinatus Hartman known from two collecting events in Tanzania and Somalia. Both other species of Molytophilus, described from Ethiopia, are herein transferred to the genus Oreoscotus as O. affinis (Hustache, 1936) comb. n. and O. puncticollis (Hustache, 1936) comb. n. A lectotype is designated for Molytophilus carinatus Hartmann. Type specimens of all three nominal species are illustrated.

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