dct:abstract
| - Eleven species of Curculionidae from Winteraceae and other plant families are described from New Caledonia and the Loyalty Islands. PALONTUS new genus seems to be adelphic to Aneuma Pascoe from New Zealand; it is placed in the tribe Storeini of the subfamily Curculioninae. There is no evidence to suggest that these weevils occupy a position within Curculionidae comparable to that of Winteraceae in Angiospermae. The alphabetical sequence of the new species, with the type localities and the hosts, when known, in parenthesis, is: Palontus bellioli (Tchamba Valley, on Belliolum), P. dispar (Houailou), P. exospermi (Mt Panie, on Exospermum, Belliolum, Bubbia and Zygogynum), P. fidelis (Mare I., Loyalty Is.), P. flebilis (Pic d'Amoa, on Nothofagus), P. iodes (Poindimie), P. leucopogonis (Plum. on Leocopogon), P. nothofagi (Mt Do, on Nothofagus), P. paniensis (Mt Panie, on Belliolum), P. turritus (Table Unio) and P. varius (Yahoue).
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bibo:abstract
| - Eleven species of Curculionidae from Winteraceae and other plant families are described from New Caledonia and the Loyalty Islands. PALONTUS new genus seems to be adelphic to Aneuma Pascoe from New Zealand; it is placed in the tribe Storeini of the subfamily Curculioninae. There is no evidence to suggest that these weevils occupy a position within Curculionidae comparable to that of Winteraceae in Angiospermae. The alphabetical sequence of the new species, with the type localities and the hosts, when known, in parenthesis, is: Palontus bellioli (Tchamba Valley, on Belliolum), P. dispar (Houailou), P. exospermi (Mt Panie, on Exospermum, Belliolum, Bubbia and Zygogynum), P. fidelis (Mare I., Loyalty Is.), P. flebilis (Pic d'Amoa, on Nothofagus), P. iodes (Poindimie), P. leucopogonis (Plum. on Leocopogon), P. nothofagi (Mt Do, on Nothofagus), P. paniensis (Mt Panie, on Belliolum), P. turritus (Table Unio) and P. varius (Yahoue).
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