Metapocyrtus mranaw, Cabras & Buenavente & Villegas, 2024

Cabras, Analyn A., Buenavente, Perry Archival C. & Villegas, Jhonnel P., 2024, Two new species of Metapocyrtus Heller from Mindanao Island, Philippines (Coleoptera, Curculionidae, Entiminae, Pachyrhynchini), Ecologica Montenegrina 73, pp. 125-137 : 134-137

B. Metapocyrtus mranaw

1. M. mranaw Cabras, 2024

Type locality: “ Philippines – Mindanao Island, Wao , Lanao del Sur ”; type depository: PNM .

2. M. um Cabras & Van Dam, 2021

Type locality: “ Philippines – Mindanao Island, Marilog, Davao City /”; type depository: PNM, CASENT .

Brief ecologic notes

Metapocyrtus hamiguitan was collected at 1037 masl in a habitat that is categorized as a secondarygrowth forest with young trees and lesser disturbance further away from the campsite. The area is montane forest according to Amoroso and Aspiras (2011). Specimens were opportunistically collected along an ant transect line by handpicking during the start of the rainy season ( Amoroso & Aspiras, 2011).

Acknowledgments

We express our gratitude to the following colleagues: Arvids Barševskis and Anita Rukmane- Bārbale for supporting our visit to Ilgas, Daugavpils, Latvia; Hiraku Yoshitake for the first author’s visit to Institute for Agro-Environmental Sciences, NARO, Tsukuba, Japan; Klaus-Dieter Klass and Olaf Jäger for the help during the authors’ visit at Senckenberg Natural History Collections, Dresden, Germany; and Mattias Forshage for accommodating authors’ visit at Swedish Museum of Natural History. We acknowledge the United Nations Environment Program – Global Environment Facility (UNEP-GEP), Centre for Agriculture and Biosciences International (CABI), Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR), and its Biodiversity Management Bureau (BMB) for the funding of fieldwork in Mt. Hamiguitan under the FORIS Project.

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