Metapocyrtus, Heller, 1912

Patano Jr, Romeo R., Amoroso, Victor B., Mohagan, Alma B., Guiang, Maria Melanie M. & Yap, Sheryl A., 2021, Two new species of the genus Metapocyrtus Heller, 1912 (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Entiminae), from Mindanao Island and an updated checklist of Metapocyrtus species in the Philippines, Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 69, pp. 282-303 : 290

Checklist of Metapocyrtus

This is the most updated checklist of Metapocyrtus in the Philippines ( Table 1) since Yap, 2008. A total of seven subgenera and 258 species are listed. Metapocyrtus (Metapocyrtus) elegans ( Waterhouse, 1842) is newly recorded from Polillo Island. Based on the list, 50% of species are only found on Luzon island, 22.09% of species have only been recorded from Mindanao, and 19.77% are found on Visayas. Another 5.04% are Philippine endemics with no specific island or locality records. 0.78% are species found on both Mindanao-Luzon, and 1.55% are species found on Mindanao-Visayas, both one species found on Visayas- Luzon and Luzon-Visayas-Mindanao, respectively. The data implies that surveys and collections were more concentrated on Luzon compared to other islands. Our recent survey in Mount Hamiguitan reveals that there are more unknown species that await discovery.