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

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: Trigonopterus chewbacca sp. n., Trigonopterus obsidianus sp. n., Tri...

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Autores principales: Van Dam, Matthew H., Laufa, Raymond, Riedel, Alexander
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Pensoft Publishers 2016
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4857049/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27199589
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.582.7709
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Sumario: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: Trigonopterus chewbacca sp. n., Trigonopterus obsidianus sp. n., Trigonopterus puncticollis sp. n. and Trigonopterus 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.

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