Carchesiopygus wollastoni (Chapuis)

Beaver, Roger A. & Sanguansub, Sunisa, 2015, A review of the genus Carchesiopygus Schedl (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Platypodinae), with keys to species, Zootaxa 3931 (1), pp. 401-412 : 409

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3931.3.4
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:4363DEB4-E7F0-4348-A4EA-7ED829683FE1
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6110918
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scientific name	Carchesiopygus wollastoni (Chapuis)
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Carchesiopygus wollastoni (Chapuis) View in CoL

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Crossotarsus wollastoni Chapuis, 1865: 74 View in CoL .

Carchesiopygus wollastoni (Chapuis) View in CoL : Schedl, 1939: 403.

Taxonomy. We have examined male syntypes from East Malaysia (NHML), and specimens from Brunei, Laos, East and West Malaysia and Thailand from NHMB, NHML, SMNH, ZMLU and RAB. The species is closely related to C. assamensis View in CoL and C. multidentatus View in CoL , but can be consistently distinguished from these species in both sexes (see keys).

Distribution. Brunei Darussalam, Indonesia (Sumatera), Laos, Malaysia (E. & W.), Thailand, Vietnam.

New records. BRUNEI, Kuala Belalong FSC, 4o34'N, 115o7'E, 260m, dipterocarp forest, ground FIT, 4.vii.1991 (N. Mawdsley) (1♂); as previous except: aerial FIT, 2.vi.1991, 4.vii.1991 (2♂, 1♀); as previous except: 220m, 30.v.1991, 16.vii.1991 (2♀); [ INDONESIA], SUMATRA, Aceh, Ketambe, [Gunung] Leuser Nat. Park, 450m, 26.ii.–1.iii.1991 (Bocák & Bocákova) (1♂).

Biology. Recorded from Dyera costulata (Apocyanaceae) ( Beeson 1941, Browne 1961), and unidentified species of Lauraceae and Sapotaceae ( Browne 1961) .

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Coleoptera
Family	Curculionidae
Genus	Carchesiopygus