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Issue: Vol. 4438 No. 3: 22 Jun. 2018
Type: Article
Published: 2018-06-22
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4438.3.10
Page range: 588–596
Abstract views: 135
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Omophorus (Sinomophorus) wallacei: a new weevil from Borneo highlights the enigmatic Ethiopian-Oriental disjunct distribution (Coleoptera, Curculionidae, Molytinae)

Taipei Municipal Chong-Cheng Senior High School, No. 77, Wenlin N. Rd., Taipei 11287, Taiwan.
Department of Entomology, National Taiwan University, No. 27, Lane 113, Sec. 4, Roosevelt Rd., Taipei 10617, Taiwan.
Department of Entomology, National Taiwan University, No. 27, Lane 113, Sec. 4, Roosevelt Rd., Taipei 10617, Taiwan.
Coleoptera Weevils Metatygini new species Oriental region disjunction biogeography

Abstract

In the present study we describe a new species of the genus Omophorus, O. (Sinomophorus) wallacei sp. nov., from Malaysian Borneo. Photographs of habitus and genitalia, a distribution map, and a key for the identification of Omophorus species are included. The definition of the subgenus Sinomophorus is revised and several new diagnostic characters are added. This is the first documented occurrence of Omophorus in Borneo, highlighting its potential diversity in the Oriental region and providing additional evidence of Ethiopian-Oriental disjunction within this genus.

 

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