Friday, January 15, 2021

[Entomology • 2021] Rhyncogonus duhameli • The Missing Link: Rhyncogonus Sharp (Coleoptera, Curculionidae, Entiminae) in the Gambier Islands, French Polynesia

 

 Rhyncogonus duhameli  
Ramage, 2021

Abstract
The genus Rhyncogonus Sharp, 1885, is represented in French Polynesia by 65 species found in the Austral, Marquesas, Society and Tuamotu archipelagos. Hitherto unknown from the fifth archipelago of French Polynesia, the Gambier Islands, a new species of Rhyncogonus has been discovered by the botanist Jean-François Butaud on Motu Teiku, a small island never previously investigated for plants and insects. Rhyncogonus duhameli sp. nov. is here described and illustrated.

Keywords: Coleoptera, French Polynesia, Motu Teiku, new species, taxonomy



 Rhyncogonus duhameli sp. nov. 


Thibault Ramage. 2021. The Missing Link: Rhyncogonus Sharp in the Gambier Islands (Coleoptera, Curculionidae, Entiminae, Rhyncogonini). Zootaxa. 4908(3); 409–416. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4908.3.5