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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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5449503

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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.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Curculionidae

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