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Cossonus Clairville 1798

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Cossonus Clairville, 1798

Comments on classification. The world fauna of the genus Cossonus Clairville, 1798, with over 300 species, is badly in need of revision, and most probably a future reviser will be forced to split them among different genera, not necessarily corresponding to the poorly defined ‘subgenera’ into which this taxon is currently in part divided; these are not used here.

Nomenclature note. During my study of Afrotropical Cossonus for comparison with Socotran taxa described below, I have discovered, that Cossonus gibbirostris Hustache, 1936 from Ethiopia (HUSTACHE 1936b: 580) is a junior primary homonym of C. gibbirostris Roelofs, 1876 from Japan (ROELOFS 1876: cxxxiv), and thus the new substitute name of Cossonus alphonsephilus nom. nov. in memory of Alphonse Hustache is here proposed for the Ethiopian species.

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Published as part of Colonnelli, Enzo, 2014, Apionidae, Nanophyidae, Brachyceridae and Curculionidae except Scolytinae (Coleoptera) from Socotra Island, pp. 295-422 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 54 on page 305, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5313125

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Clairville
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Coleoptera
Family
Curculionidae
Genus
Cossonus
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Cossonus Clairville, 1798 sec. Colonnelli, 2014

References

  • HUSTACHE A. 1936 b: Entomological exploration to Abyssinia, 1926 - 7: Coleoptera, Curculionidae. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series 10 18: 563 - 587.
  • ROELOFS W. 1876: Curculionides recuillis par M. J. van Volxen au Japon et en Chine. Comptes-rendus des Seances de la Societe Entomologique de Belgique 18 (1875): cxxviii - cxxxiv.