Four new species of Trigonopterus Fauvel from the island of New Britain (Coleoptera, Curculionidae)

By

Van Dam, Matthew H.
Laufa, Raymond
Riedel, Alexander

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2016

Original Publication

ZooKeys

Volume

582

Pages

129-141

Subjects

Bismarck Archipelago , cox1 , Cryptorhynchinae , DNA barcoding , endemism , hyperdiverse , Morphology , Nakanai Range , New Guinea , weevils

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sofia, Bulgaria Pensoft Publishers

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.582.7709

 

Abstract

The hyperdiverse genus Trigonopterus has its center of diversity in Melanesia, but only a single species is recorded from the Bismarck Archipelago to date. Here we describe four new species from the island of New Britain: T. chewbacca sp. n., T. obsidianus sp. n., T. puncticollis sp. n. and T. silaliensis sp. n. We provide cytochrome oxidase subunit I (cox1) sequences of the new species and a key to all five species known from the Bismarck Archipelago.