Taxonavigation

Familia: Curculionidae
Subfamilia: Curculioninae
Tribus: Eugnomini
Subtribus: Eugnomina
Genus: Icmalius
Species: Icmalius abnormis
Synonym: Icmalius helmsi

Name

• Icmalius helmsi (Sharp, 1886)
  • Authority for placement: Marshall, 1952: 267 ('Icmalius abnormis Broun (1886) is synonymous with Ancistropterus helmsi Sharp (Nov. 1886). The precise date of Broun's publication is not known, but the preface to it by Dr. James Hector is dated April, and the part was received at the British Museum on 20th Oct. 1886. The name of the species will therefore stand as Icmalius abnormis')
  • Current placement: Icmalius abnormis (Broun, 1886), as invalid subjective synonym
  • Original genus: Ancistropterus White, 1846
  • Original status: valid species
  • Primary type: syntypes (2)
    • Fixation: automatic ('two examples')
  • Type locality: 'Greymouth'

Primary references

• Sharp, D. 1886. On New Zealand Coleoptera, with descriptions of new genera and species. Scientific transactions of the Royal Dublin Society (2)3: 351–454, plates XII–XIII. BHL. Internet Archive. Reference page.  [first availability, see p. 452]

References

• Marshall, G.A.K. 1926: Some new Curculionidae from New Zealand (Col.) Annals and magazine of natural history (9) 18(103): 1–16, plate I. DOI: 10.1080/00222932608633472 BUGZ Reference page.  [see p. 15]

• Marshall, G.A.K. 1952: Taxonomic notes on Curculionidae (Col.) Annals and magazine of natural history (12) 5(51): 261–270. DOI: 10.1080/00222935208654289 Reference page.  [see p. 267]