ZOOTAXA 1536 Annotated checklist of weevils from the Papuan region (Coleoptera, Curculionoidea) GREGORY P. SETLIFF Magnolia Press Auckland, New Zealand Zootaxa 1536 © 2007 Magnolia Press · 1 Gregory P. Setliff Annotated checklist of weevils from the Papuan region (Coleoptera, Curculionoidea) (Zootaxa 1536) 296 pp.; 30 cm. 30 July 2007 ISBN 978-1-86977-139-3 (paperback) ISBN 978-1-86977-140-9 (Online edition) FIRST PUBLISHED IN 2007 BY Magnolia Press P.O. Box 41-383 Auckland 1346 New Zealand e-mail: [email protected] http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/ © 2007 Magnolia Press All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored, transmitted or disseminated, in any form, or by any means, without prior written permission from the publisher, to whom all requests to reproduce copyright material should be directed in writing. This authorization does not extend to any other kind of copying, by any means, in any form, and for any purpose other than private research use. ISSN 1175-5326 (Print edition) ISSN 1175-5334 (Online edition) 2 · Zootaxa 1536 © 2007 Magnolia Press SETLIFF Zootaxa 1536: 1–296 (2007) ISSN 1175-5326 (print edition) www.mapress.com/zootaxa/ ZOOTAXA Copyright © 2007 · Magnolia Press ISSN 1175-5334 (online edition) Annotated checklist of weevils from the Papuan region (Coleoptera, Curculionoidea) GREGORY P. SETLIFF Department of Entomology, University of Minnesota, 219 Hodson, 1980 Folwell Avenue, St. Paul, Minnesota 55108 U.S.A. & The New Guinea Binatang Research Center, P. O. Box 604, Madang, Papua New Guinea. Email: [email protected] Table of contents ABSTRACT ........................................................................................................................................................................4 INTRODUCTION ...............................................................................................................................................................4 Historical Papuan collections.............................................................................................................................................. 5 Taxonomic history: specialists ............................................................................................................................................5 Taxonomic history: catalogs and checklists ........................................................................................................................7 METHODS AND CONVENTIONS EMPLOYED ............................................................................................................7 Faunal area and gazetteer ....................................................................................................................................................7 Classification followed........................................................................................................................................................ 8 Format of checklist entries ..................................................................................................................................................9 Compilation of the bibliography .........................................................................................................................................9 NOMENCLATURAL CHANGES .....................................................................................................................................9 New type-species designations ........................................................................................................................................... 9 New synonymies ...............................................................................................................................................................11 Changes in status ...............................................................................................................................................................11 New combinations .............................................................................................................................................................12 PROBLEMATIC RECORDS ............................................................................................................................................14 INTRODUCED SPECIES ................................................................................................................................................16 Biological control agents ...................................................................................................................................................16 Pollinator species ..............................................................................................................................................................16 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS .................................................................................................................................................16 SYNOPSIS OF FAMILY-LEVEL CLASSIFICATION ....................................................................................................17 CHECKLIST .....................................................................................................................................................................19 Nemonychidae ...................................................................................................................................................................19 Anthribidae ........................................................................................................................................................................19 Belidae ...............................................................................................................................................................................43 Rhynchitidae .....................................................................................................................................................................43 Attelabidae ........................................................................................................................................................................ 45 Brentidae ...........................................................................................................................................................................51 Apionidae ..........................................................................................................................................................................68 Brachyceridae ....................................................................................................................................................................72 Dryophthoridae ................................................................................................................................................................. 72 Erirhinidae .........................................................................................................................................................................80 Curculionidae ....................................................................................................................................................................80 REFERENCES ................................................................................................................................................................220 INDEX .............................................................................................................................................................................248 Accepted by Q. Wang: 3 Mar. 2007; published: 30 Jul. 2007 3 APPENDIX 1. .................................................................................................................................................................282 APPENDIX 2. .................................................................................................................................................................286 APPENDIX 3. .................................................................................................................................................................297 ABSTRACT The following checklist includes 2,955 species-group names and 553 genus-group names of weevils occurring in the Papuan region. Major islands treated are: Aru, Biak, Bougainville, Manus, Mysol, New Guinea, Salawatti, Trobriand, Waigeo, Woodlark, and Yapen Islands and the islands of the Admiralty, Bismarck, d’Entrecasteaux, and Louisaide Archi- pelagoes. Maps of the region with historically important collection localities are provided. Entomological expeditions to the region and collections containing significant weevil material are summarized. All available family-group, genus- group and species-group names are arranged alphabetically for all families of Curculionoidea known from the region. All currently accepted species epithet are annotated with taxonomic references, notes on published distributions, past taxo- nomic changes, infrasubspecific names, and species-group synonymies. The following nomenclatural changes are pro- posed: the monotypic genus Neplaxa Casey is a new synonym of Pantoxystus Pascoe; its type species Neplaxa illustratus Casey is a new synonym of Pantoxystus rubricollis (Boisduval). Two subgenera of Neosynaptops, Neosynap- topsis Legalov and Pseudosynaptos Legalov are new synonymies of Euops (Neosynaptops) Voss revised status. Type- species are designated