Megacolabus

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Ordo: Coleoptera
Subordo: Polyphaga
Superfamilia: Curculionoidea

Familia: Curculionidae
Subfamilia: Molytinae
Tribus: Phrynixini
Genus: Megacolabus
Species: M. bifurcatus – M. decipiens – M. garviensis – M. harrisi – M. obesus – M. pteridosus – M. reductus – M. sculpturatus
Name

Megacolabus Broun, 1893
Gender

masculine
Synonyms

Callomaoria Brookes, 1926 [synonymised by May, 1963: 151 ('new synonymy')]

Type species

Callomaoria Brookes: Callomaoria harrisi Brookes, 1926, by original designation
Megacolabus Broun: Megacolabus sculpturatus Broun, 1893, by monotypy

References
cited sources

Brookes, A.E. 1926: A new genus and eight new species of Coleoptera. Transactions and proceedings of the New Zealand Institute, 56: 440–448.
Broun, T. 1893: Manual of the New Zealand Coleoptera. Parts V, VI, VII. New Zealand Institute, Wellington. Internet Archive BHL BUGZ
May, B.M. 1963: Revision of the genus Megacolabus Broun 1893 (Coleoptera: Curculionidae<: Rhyparosominae). Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand, zoology, 3: 151–164. BUGZ

Additional references

May, B.M. 1973: A new species of Megacolabus and descriptions of the immature stages of M. decipiens (Coleoptera: Curculionidae). Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 3: 255–262. BUGZ
Oberprieler, R.G. 2010: A reclassification of the weevil subfamily Cyclominae (Coleoptera: Curculionidae). Zootaxa, 2515: 1–35. Preview

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