Polydrusus ( Eustolus ) scapularis Pesarini, 1975

Yunakov, Nikolai, Korotyaev, Boris & Alziar, Gabriel, 2024, Miscellaneous notes on the systematics of and synonymy in Entiminae (Coleoptera, Curculionidae), Contributions to Entomology 74 (2), pp. 249-264 : 249-264

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.3897/contrib.entomol.74.e136994

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14534591

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scientific name

Polydrusus ( Eustolus ) scapularis Pesarini, 1975
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Polydrusus ( Eustolus) scapularis Pesarini, 1975 View in CoL

Notes.

Pesarini (1975) overlooked P. viridimaculatus Pic, 1919 while describing P. scapularis , and compared his new species with Polydrusus ( Poecilodrusus) elegans Reitter, 1887 , P. ( Poecilodrusus) viridicinctus Gyllenhal, 1834 , and P. (Eurodrusus) cervinus (Linnaeus, 1758) , placing it in the P. cervinus species-group. The paratype of Polydrusus scapularis in the ZIN collection was examined. External morphology and the structure of aedeagus and spermatheca of Polydrusus scapularis give evidence that it is a junior synonym of P. viridimaculatus .

ZIN

Russian Academy of Sciences, Zoological Institute, Zoological Museum

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Curculionidae

SubFamily

Entiminae

Tribe

Polydrusini

Genus

Polydrusus