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Geochus distinguens Broun
Description
GeOchUs distingUens Broun, 1914 (Fig. 17)
Geochus distinguens Broun 1914b: 570. Type locality: Epsom, Mount Eden, Auckland.
Type Depository. BMNH: HT.
Distribution. New Zealand (AK).
Remarks. Broun based the description on a single specimen that we confirmed as the holotype.
We place this species into a species group with G. politus.
Type Material Examined. Holotype (BMNH): card-mounted, “3616. [in Broun’s hand]// New Zealand. [red underline] Broun Coll. Brit. Mus. 1922-482.//Epsom. 12.2.1912. [in Broun’s hand]// Geochus distinguens [in Broun’s hand]”.
Notes
Published as part of Leschen, Richard A. B., Davis, Steven, Brown, Samuel D. J., Brav-Cubitt, Talia & Buckley, Thomas R., 2022, The Enigmatic Dead-Leaf Miner Geochus Broun (Coleoptera: Curculionidae): Phylogenetic Placement, a New Species, and Lectotype Designations, pp. 1-35 in The Coleopterists Bulletin 76 (1) on page 16, DOI: 10.1649/0010-065X-76.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13529302
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- BMNH
- Event date
- 1912-12-02
- Family
- Curculionidae
- Genus
- Geochus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Coleoptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Broun
- Species
- distinguens
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype
- Verbatim event date
- 1912-12-02