Morimotodes

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: Molytinae
Tribus: Molytini
Subtribus: Molytina
Genus: Morimotodes
Species: M. igori – M. ilyai – M. ismene – M. magnificus – M. medvedevi – M. politus – M. polynices – M. striatus –

Name

• Morimotodes Grebennikov, 2014: 125

Type species: Morimotodes ismene, Vasily Viktorovich Grebennikov, 2014 by original designation.

Etymology: Derived by adding the Latin suffix -odes to the family name of Katsura Morimoto (retired, formerly professor at Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan).

References

Primary references

• Grebennikov, V.V. 2014. Morimotodes, a new genus for two minute wingless litter species from southwest China and Taiwan with an illustrated overview of Molytina and Plinthina genera (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Molytini). Bonn zoological bulletin 63(2): 123–147. Full article (PDF)Reference page.  [original description: p. 125]

Additional references

• Davidian, G.E. 2019. New Weevils of the Genus Morimotodes Grebennikov, 2014 (Coleoptera, Curculionidae: Molytinae) from the Mainland China. Entomological Review 99(7): 949-972. DOI: 10.1134/S0013873819070078. . Reference page.