Acanthopterus

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Curculionoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Pancrustacea Cladus: Allotriocarida Subphylum: Hexapoda Classis: Insecta Cladus: Dicondylia Subclassis: Pterygota Infraclassis: Neoptera Cladus: Eumetabola Cladus: Holometabola Superordo: Coleopterida Ordo: Coleoptera Subordo: Polyphaga Infraordo: Cucujiformia Superfamilia: Curculionoidea

Familia: Curculionidae
Subfamilia: Cyclominae
Tribus: Aterpini
Genus: Acanthopterus
Species (7): A. bidens – A. granulosus – A. inermis – A. lugubris – A. penicillatus – A. tristis – A. velatus

Name

Acanthopterus Faust, 1889: 67

• Original status: Valid genus
• Type species: Trachodes penicillatus Montrouzier, 1861 (imprint 1860)
  • Fixation: Monotypy
• ZooBank: 9AD1C41A-172E-4D98-B268-14F0A1D6758A

References

• Kuschel, G. 2014: The New Caledonian and Fijian species of Aterpini and Gonipterini (Coleoptera: Curculionidae). Mémoires du Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle 206: 133–163. Reference page. 

Additional references

• Crosby, T.K. & Larochelle, A. 1994. List of the Coleoptera genera in the New Zealand Arthropod Collection (NZAC). Weta 17(2): 44–69. Online version Reference page.  [misleadingly listed as if present in New Zealand, see pp. 45, 60]

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