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Issue: Vol. 4991 No. 2: 24 Jun. 2021
Type: Article
Published: 2021-06-24
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4991.2.9
Page range: 363-370
Abstract views: 442
PDF downloaded: 28

Two new species of Metapocyrtus (Metapocyrtus) Heller 1912 from Mindanao, Philippines (Curculionidae, Entiminae, Pachyrhynchini)

c/o Museo di Storia naturale del Salento, 73021 Calimera (Lecce), Italy
c/o Museo di Storia Naturale dell’Università di Firenze, Sezione di Zoologia “La Specola”, Via Romana 17, 50125 Firenze, Italy.
Coleoptera Metapocyrtus Mindanao new species Pachyrhynchini weevils

Abstract

Two new species of Curculionidae, Pachyrhynchini, Metapocyrtus waoensis sp. nov., and M. lanaoensis sp. nov., both from western Mindanao are described. Images of habitus and fully everted endophallus and illustrations of male genitalia are provided for each species.

 

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