Taxonavigation

Peniticus suffusus (length about 5 mm)

Familia: Chrysomelidae
Subfamilia: Eumolpinae
Genus: Peniticus
Species (5): P. antiquus – P. plicatus – P. robustus – P. suffusus – P. wallacei

Name

Peniticus Sharp, 1876: 101

Type species: Peniticus suffusus Sharp, 1876

• Fixation: subsequent designation by Broun (1921: 664) ['More elongate-oval than the type of the genus (1101), ...', where 1101 is the "Broun species number" for Peniticus suffusus]

References

• Broun, T. 1921. Descriptions of new genera and species of Coleoptera. Part VII. New Zealand Institute bulletin (1)(7): 591–665. DOI: 10.5962/bhl.title.12470 BHL Reference page. 

• Sharp, D. 1876. Descriptions of some new genera and species of New Zealand Coleoptera (concluded from page 77.) Entomologist's monthly magazine 13: 97–102. BHL Reference page.  [first availability, see p. 101]

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