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Rhigopsidius piercei Heller 1906

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Rhigopsidius piercei Heller, 1906

Rhigopsidius tucumanus Sasscer and Pierce, 1913: 143 (misidentification, non Heller, 1906).

Rhigopsidius piercei Heller, 1936: 285 (replacement name for R. tucumanus Sasscer and Pierce, 1913) (type locality: Argentina: Jujuy, Huacalera; type material: N: MLP); Emden, 1952: 744 (= R. tucumanus); Kuschel, 1989: 30 (reinstated as a distinct species).

Immature stages. Larva (Loiácono and Morrone, 1991; Marvaldi, 1998) and pupa (Loiácono and Morrone, 1991).

Host plants. Solanum tuberosum L. (Solanaceae) (Morrone and Loiácono, 1992).

Distribution. Bolivia, Peru, and northwestern and southern Argentina (Morrone and Loiácono, 1992; Posadas, 1998).

Notes

Published as part of Morrone, Juan J., 2011, Annotated checklist of the tribe Listroderini (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Cyclominae) 3119, pp. 1-68 in Zootaxa 3119 (1) on page 56, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3119.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5246257

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Heller
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Coleoptera
Family
Curculionidae
Genus
Rhigopsidius
Species
piercei
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Rhigopsidius piercei Heller, 1906 sec. Morrone, 2011

References

  • Heller, K. M. (1906) Neue Russelkafer aus Central = und Sudamerika. Stettiner Entomologische Zeitung, 67, 3 - 50.
  • Sasscer, E. R. & Pierce, W. D. (1913) Preliminary report of the finding of a new weevil enemy of the potato tuber. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, 15 (3), 143 - 144.
  • Heller, K. M. (1936) Erganzende Bemerkung uber kartoffelschadigende Russelkafer. (Coleoptera: Curculionidae). Arbeiten uber physiologische und angewandte Entomologie aus Berlin-Dahlem, 3, 284 - 285.
  • Emden, F. I. van. (1952) On the taxonomy of Rhynchophora larvae: Adelognatha and Alophinae (Insecta: Coleoptera). Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 122, 651 - 795.
  • Kuschel, G. (1989) In: Wibmer, G. J. & C. W. O'Brien, Additions and corrections to annotated checklists of the weevils of North America, Central America, and the West Indies, and of South America, Southwestern Entomologist, 13, 1 - 49.
  • Loiacono, M. S. & Morrone, J. J. (1991) Immature stages of Rhigopsidius piercei Heller (Coleoptera: Curculionidae). Elytron, 5, 23 - 29.
  • Marvaldi, A. E. (1998) Larvae of South American Rhytirrhininae (Coleoptera: Curculionidae). Coleopterists Bulletin, 52, 71 - 89.
  • Morrone, J. J. & Loiacono, M. S. (1992) Revision of the genus Rhigopsidius Heller (Insecta, Coleoptera, Curculionidae: Rhytirrhininae). Entomologische Abhandlungen, 54, 129 - 139.
  • Posadas, P. (1998) Ocurrence of the weevil genus Rhigopsidius (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) in Patagonia. Revista de la Sociedad Entomologica Argentina, 57, 90.