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Homoeodera nodulipennis Wollaston, 1877:194

Gnarled broad-headed weevil, Knobbly-winged fungus weevil

 

 

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

Synonym/s: Homœodera nodulipennis Wollaston, 1877 [superseded orthography]

 

Conservation Status

Missing

Last record: February 1876

IUCN RedList status: Critically Endangered (Possibly Extinct)

 

Distribution

St. Helena

 

Biology & Ecology

 

 

Hypodigm

Only known from two specimens (Ball, 1985).

 

Media

 

 

References

Original scientific description:

Wollaston, Thomas Vernon. (1877). Coleoptera Sancta-Helenae. London: John van Voorst. [p. 194]

 

Other references:

Ball, George E. (ed.). (1985). Taxonomy, Phylogeny, and Zoogeography of Beetles and Ants A Volume Dedicated to the Memory of Philip Jackson Darlington, Jr. 1904-1983. Dr. W. Junk Publishers. 514 pp. [p. 267]

Basilewsky, P. (1972). Anthribidae. In: Basilewsky, P. (Ed.). La faune terrestre de l'île de Sainte-Hélène. Deuxième partie. Annales du Musée Royal de l'Afrique Centrale, Zoologie. 192: 248-305.

Mendel, H., Ashmole, N. P. and Ashmole, Myrtle J. (2008/2013). Invertebrates of the Central Peaks and Peak Dale, St Helena. Commissioned by the St Helena National Trust, Jamestown, St Helena.

Pryce, D. (2017). Homoeodera nodulipennis. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2017: e.T65585575A65585579. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-3.RLTS.T65585575A65585579.en. Accessed on 29 July 2022.

 

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