Cossonus Clairville, 1798

Colonnelli, Enzo, 2014, Apionidae, Nanophyidae, Brachyceridae and Curculionidae except Scolytinae (Coleoptera) from Socotra Island, Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 54, pp. 295-422 : 305

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5313125
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scientific name	Cossonus Clairville, 1798
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Comments on classification. The world fauna of the genus Cossonus Clairville, 1798 , with over 300 species, is badly in need of revision, and most probably a future reviser will be forced to split them among different genera, not necessarily corresponding to the poorly defined ‘subgenera’ into which this taxon is currently in part divided; these are not used here.

Nomenclature note. During my study of Afrotropical Cossonus for comparison with Socotran taxa described below, I have discovered, that Cossonus gibbirostris Hustache, 1936 from Ethiopia ( HUSTACHE 1936b: 580) is a junior primary homonym of C. gibbirostris Roelofs, 1876 from Japan ( ROELOFS 1876: cxxxiv), and thus the new substitute name of Cossonus alphonsephilus nom. nov. in memory of Alphonse Hustache is here proposed for the Ethiopian species.

References

HUSTACHE A. 1936 b: Entomological exploration to Abyssinia, 1926 - 7: Coleoptera, Curculionidae. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series 10 18: 563 - 587.

ROELOFS W. 1876: Curculionides recuillis par M. J. van Volxen au Japon et en Chine. Comptes-rendus des Seances de la Societe Entomologique de Belgique 18 (1875): cxxviii - cxxxiv.