Palontus

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: Curculioninae
Tribus: Storeini
Genus: Palontus
Species (11): P. bellioli – P. dispar – P. exospermi – P. fidelis – P. flebilis – P. iodes – P. leucopogonis – P. nothofagi – P. paniensis – P. turritus – P. varius

[source: Kuschel (1990)]

Name

• Palontus Kuschel, 1990
  • Original status: valid genus
  • Gender: masculine
  • Type species: Palontus exospermi Kuschel, 1990
    • Fixation: original designation [p. 33]
  • Authority for placement in Storeini: Kuschel (1990: 29)

Primary references

• Kuschel, G. 1990. Some weevils from Winteraceae and other hosts from New Caledonia. Tulane Studies in Zoology and Botany 27(2): 29–47. BHL Reference page. 

References

• Bergström, G. et al. 1991: Chemical basis of a highly specific mutualism: chiral esters attract pollinating beetles in Eupomatiaceae. Phytochemistry, 30 (10): 3221–3225. DOI: 10.1016/0031-9422(91)83179-O
• Pellmyr, O.; Thien, L.B.; Bergström, G.; Groth, I. 1990: Pollination of New Caledonian Winteraceae: opportunistic shifts or parallel radiation with their pollinators? Plant systematics and evolution, 173 (3-4): 143–157. DOI: 10.1007/BF00940859
• Sampson, F.B. 2007: Variation and similarities in pollen features in some basal angiosperms, with some taxonomic implications. Plant systematics and evolution, 263 (1-2): 59–75. DOI: 10.1007/s00606-006-0467-0

Links

• ION
• Nomenclator Zoologicus
• EoL [no record]