A review of the genus Baiocis Browne, 1962 (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Platypodinae), with new species, new synonymy and a key to males
Author
Beaver, Roger A.
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Zootaxa
2018
2018-06-18
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3
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journal article
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10.11646/zootaxa.4434.3.5
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Crossotarsus kuntzeni
(Schedl)
comb. n.
Platypus kuntzeni
Schedl, 1937
: 40
.
Baiocis kuntzeni
(Schedl)
:
Browne 1983
: 555
.
Taxonomy:
The senior author has examined the
lectotype
and
allotype
(NMW), and specimens of both sexes determined by Schedl and Browne (BMNH). The species has to be transferred to the genus
Crossotarsus
. It is closely related to
Crossotarsus imitatrix
(Schedl)
.
Distribution:
Recorded only from the island of New
Guinea
.
Biology:
Recorded from fire-damaged trees of
Araucaria cunninghami
(Araucariaceae)
and
Eucalyptus torelliana
(Myrtaceae)
(
Wylie & Shanahan 1976
), and
Pometia pinnata
(Sapindaceae)
(
Roberts 1980
).
Roberts (1980)
notes that the pupae are parasitised by larvae of
Sosylus silius
(Hinton)
(
Coleoptera
:
Colydiidae
).