Melanterius porcatus, W. F. Erichson, 1842

Pinzón-Navarro, Sara V., Jennings, Debbie & Oberprieler, Rolf G., 2017, Host associations of Melanterius Erichson (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Cleogonini), with a diagnosis and delimitation of the genus and description of five new species, Zootaxa 4298 (1), pp. 1-77 : 26

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4298.1.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:6F38752A-0669-488E-879B-8881EC80ECF2

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6017964

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/A160333C-FFB1-FF84-F287-A9A5A3BFA0A5

treatment provided by

Plazi

scientific name

Melanterius porcatus
status

 

The M. porcatus View in CoL group

The group comprises large ( 5–8 mm), blackish, nude, partially glabrous species with large, round to oval, open elytral punctures that compress the interstriae into narrow, usually slightly wavy costae, and it includes M. bidentatus Lea, 1899 , M. conspiciendus Lea, 1909 , M. leptorrhynchus Lea, 1911 , M. porcatus Erichson, 1842 , M. semiporcatus Erichson, 1842 and M. unidentatus Lea, 1899 . Putative host records are available only for M. porcatus and M. semiporcatus .

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Curculionidae

Genus

Melanterius

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