Aclees visayus ( Heller, 1929 ) Meregalli & Boriani & Taddei & Hsu & Tseng & Mouttet, 2020

Meregalli, Massimo, Boriani, Marco, Taddei, Andrea, Hsu, Chen-Fu, Tseng, Wei-Zhe & Mouttet, Raphaëlle, 2020, A new species of Aclees from Taiwan with notes on other species of the genus (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Molytinae), Zootaxa 4868 (1), pp. 1-26 : 16-17

Aclees visayus ( Heller, 1929) comb. n.

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Pagiophloeus visayus Heller, 1929: 12 .

Type locality: Philippine Islands, Samar .

Heller (1929) described 7 species of Molytinae from the Philippine Islands as Pagiophloeus Faust, 1892 (a synonym of Pimelocerus Lacordaire, 1863 ), including P. visayus . One of the authors (M.M.) examined the type specimen of P. visayus , conserved at the MTD. Based on its morphology, it is transferred to the genus Aclees as Aclees visayus ( Heller, 1929) , comb. n. In the molecular analysis a specimen morphologically corresponding to the type of P. visayus was part of the Aclees clade, and it clustered as sister to the other species examined.

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FIGURE 9. Aclees visayus (Heller, 1929), Philippines, Mindanao, Lanao del Sur, Wao, local collector legit. Bar: 10mm.