A revision of the New Zealand weevil genus Irenimus Pascoe, 1876 (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Entiminae)
Author
Brown, Samuel D. J.
text
Zootaxa
2017
4263
1
1
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journal article
33101
10.11646/zootaxa.4263.1.1
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26.
Chalepistes tenebricus
(Broun, 1893)
new combination
Catoptes tenebricus
Broun, 1893b:1194
Catoptes aemulator
Broun, 1893b:1193
new synonym
Irenimus aemulator
(Broun)
;
Barratt & Kuschel, 1996
:372
,
Barratt
et al.
, 1998
:56
Catoptes argentalis
Broun, 1914
:208
new synonym
Although
C. aemulator
has been used as a valid name previously,
C. tenebricus
is chosen as the senior name, as the holotype of
C. aemulator
is a teneral specimen and critical characters are not fully developed. The vestiture of
C. argentalis
is quite different in colour, shape and appearance from that of
C. tenebricus
; however no clear structural characters exist to reliably separate the two.