Four new species of Trigonopterus Fauvel from the island of New Britain (Coleoptera, Curculionidae)

Collection: Pensoft Publishers

Keywords: Bismarck Archipelago · Topics: Coleoptera Taxonomy and Distribution, Plant and animal studies, Fossil Insects in Amber

The hyperdiverse genus Trigonopterus has its center of diversity in Melanesia, but only a single species is recorded from the Bismarck Archipelago to date. Here we describe four new species from the island of New Britain: T. chewbacca sp. n., T. obsidianus sp. n., T. puncticollis sp. n. and T. silaliensis sp. n. We provide cytochrome oxidase subunit I (cox1) sequences of the new species and a key to all five species known from the Bismarck Archipelago.

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