Chalepistes pensus ( Broun, 1914 )

Brown, Samuel D. J., 2017, A revision of the New Zealand weevil genus Irenimus Pascoe, 1876 (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Entiminae), Zootaxa 4263 (1), pp. 1-42 : 36

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4263.1.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:78E0852E-F66A-44E4-8798-E5187185C950

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6015240

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Chalepistes pensus ( Broun, 1914 )
status

comb. nov.

17. Chalepistes pensus ( Broun, 1914) View in CoL new combination

Inophloeus pensus Broun, 1914:212 View in CoL

Inophloeus tricostatus Broun, 1915:328 View in CoL new synonym

The holotype of I. pensus View in CoL is fully clothed while the holotype of I. tricostatus View in CoL is severely abraded. The other character that Broun uses to distinguish I. tricostatus View in CoL is the more developed rostral carinae, which is a variable character in many species of Chalepistes View in CoL .

Broun, T. (1914) Descriptions of new genera and species of Coleoptera. Bulletin of the New Zealand Institute, 1 (3), 143 - 266. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 12470

Broun, T. (1915) Descriptions of new genera and species of Coleoptera. Bulletin of the New Zealand Institute, 1 (4), 267 - 346. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 12470

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Curculionidae

SubFamily

Entiminae

Genus

Chalepistes