Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Curculionoidea 

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Ordo: Coleoptera
Subordo: Polyphaga
Superfamilia: Curculionoidea

Familia: Curculionidae
Subfamilia: Entiminae
Tribus: Ottistirini
Genus: Ottistira
Species: Ottistira tumidirostris

Name

  • Ottistira tumidirostris Riedel, 2001: 265–267, fig. 13.
Type locality: Papua New Guinea, Southern highland province, E. of Mendi, Anga Gorge.
Holotype: BPBM , ♂, 14.X.1958, leg. J.L. Gressitt.
Etymology: This epithet is a compound of the latin adjective tumidus,-a,-um (swollen) and the latin noun rostrum (snout) and refers to the apically swollen rostrum.

References

  • Riedel, A.; O'Brien, C.W. 1995: A new species-group of Ottistira Pascoe from New Guinea (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Entiminae: Ottistirini). Invertebrate taxonomy, 9 (2): 247–277. DOI: 10.1071/IT9950247
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