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Puranius Germain

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Puranius Germain

Puranius Germain 1895: 313 (type species: P. inaequalis Germain, designated by Morrone, 1994a). Reichertia Enderlein 1912: 31 (type species: Listroderes exsculpticollis Enderlein by original designation). Puranius championi (Kuschel 1952)

Reichertia exsculpticollis Champion 1918: 182 (preoccupied).

Amathynetes championi Kuschel 1952: 136; Kuschel 1955: 288 (Puranius); Kuschel 1986: 116 (Macrostyphlus); Morrone 1994a: 44 (Puranius).

Geographic distribution as in fig. 14

Specimens exmined. ISLAS MALVINAS: East Falkland, Kidney Island, III-15-1963 (3 specimens with same data, BMNH); Port Stanley, XI-30-1962 (4 specimens with same data, BMNH); Rabbit Cove (5 specimens with same data, BMNH).

Temporal distribution: December to March.

Other

Published as part of Posadas, Paula, 2008, A preliminar overview of species composition and geographical distribution of Malvinian weevils (Insecta: Coleoptera: Curculionidae), pp. 1-26 in Zootaxa 1704 on page 18, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.180856

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Biodiversity

Family
Curculionidae
Genus
Puranius
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Coleoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Germain
Taxon rank
genus

References

  • Germain, P. (1895) Apuntes sobre los insectos de Chile. Estudio i descripcion de los Listroderitos de Chile i tierras magallanicas de la coleccion del Museo Nacional i de la de Don Fernando Paulsen. Anales de la Universidad de Chile, 90, 287 - 324, 467 - 505, 567 - 602, 91, 53 - 104.
  • Morrone, J. J. (1994 a) Systematics, cladistics, and biogeography of the Andean weevil genera Macrostyphlus, Adioristidius, Puranius, and Amathynetoides, new genus (Coleoptera: Curculionidae). American Museum Novitates, 3104, 1 - 63.
  • Enderlein, G. (1912) Die Insekten des Antarkto-Archiplata-Gebietes (Feuerland, Falkland-Inseln, Sud-Georgien). 20. Beitrag zur Kenntnis der antarktischen Fauna. Kungliga Svenska Vetenskaps Akademien Handlingar, 48, 1 - 170.
  • Kuschel, G. (1952) Cylindrorhininae aus dem Britischen Museum (Col. Curculionidae, 8. Beitr.). Annals and Magazine of Natural History, ser 12, 5, 121 - 137.
  • Champion, G. C. (1918) The Coleoptera of the Falkland Islands. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, ser. 9, 1, 167 - 186.
  • Kuschel, G. (1955) Nuevas sinonimias y anotaciones sobre Curculionoidea (Coleoptera). Revista Chilena de Entomologia, 4, 261 - 312.
  • Kuschel, G. (1986) In: Wibmer G. & O'Brien, C. W. Annotated checklist of the weevils (Curculionidae sensu lato) of South America (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea). Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute, 39, 1 - 563.