Polydrusus reitteri Kirsch, 1878

Yunakov, Nikolai, Korotyaev, Boris & Alziar, Gabriel, 2024, Miscellaneous notes on the systematics of and synonymy in Entiminae (Coleoptera, Curculionidae), Contributions to Entomology 74 (2), pp. 249-264 : 249-264

Polydrusus reitteri Kirsch, 1878

Notes.

All attempts to trace type specimens of Polydrusus reitteri in MTD among Kirsch’s material were unsuccessful. The species was described from Mikwena at Rioni River, Georgia and compared with Polydrusus sparsus Gyllenhal, 1834 , a species unknown from the Caucasus. Polydrusus reitteri has been mistakenly placed in the genus Myllocerus Schoenherr, 1823 by Ramamurthy and Ghai (1988), as no Myllocerus species is known from Georgia (Cholokava 2008). Instead, there is Polydrusus rufulus Hochhuth 1847 , which has some rostrum features resembling those of Myllocerus . According to the original description, P. reitteri may well be a synonym of P. rufulus Hochhuth, 1847 .