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Eupholus petitii

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Eupholus petitii
Eupholus (schoenherri) petiti from New Guinea
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Curculionidae
Genus: Eupholus
Species:
E. petitii
Binomial name
Eupholus petitii
Synonyms
  • Eupholus aurifer Vollenhoven 1864

Eupholus petitii is a disputed species of beetle belonging to the family Curculionidae.[1]

Taxonomy

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Eupholus petitii is now considered by some authors a subspecies of Eupholus schoenherri. [2][3]

Etymology

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The species name schoenherri honours the Swedish entomologist Carl Johan Schönherr.

Distribution

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This species can be found in New Guinea

Description

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Eupholus (schoenherri) petiti is usually metallic bright blue-green, with four transverse unequally spaced black shining bands on elytra. The last band is strongly arched. Antennae are club-shaped, it has a longitudinal groove on the vertex and the extremity of thighs is blue. The blue-green colour derives from very small scales, covering all over the elytra.[4]

References

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Data related to Eupholus petitii at Wikispecies Media related to Eupholus petitii at Wikimedia Commons

  1. ^ Encyclopedia of life
  2. ^ Bisby F.A., Roskov Y.R., Orrell T.M., Nicolson D., Paglinawan L.E., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Ouvrard D. Catalogue of life
  3. ^ Global Species
  4. ^ M. Guerin Maneville Description de quelque coleopteres in Travaux inedits - Revue zoologique, (1841) Volume 4, pag. 216