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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Protolobus obscurus
Sharp, 1886
Protolobus obscurus
Sharp, 1886
:422
Catoptes postrectus
Marshall, 1931
:420
new synonym
The form of the scales on the dorsum, the heavily scaled gena ventral of the antennal insertions and the broad triangular tooth at the apex of the protibia place
Catoptes postrectus
in
Protolobus
. The synonymy with
P. obscurus
is established based on overall similarity between the
type
specimens of the two taxa, the differences between which are encompassed within the level of variation from a series of specimens collected near Oamaru, the
type
locality of
C. postrectus
.