Catoptes

Brown, Samuel D. J., 2017, A revision of the New Zealand weevil genus Irenimus Pascoe, 1876 (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Entiminae), Zootaxa 4263 (1), pp. 1-42 : 32

Catoptes sec. Kuschel

Kuschel (1969), upon studying the type specimen of Catoptes obliquesignatus Boheman , ascertained that the name Catoptes had been misapplied by Broun, Sharp and Marshall. That is, the species described in Catoptes by these authors were not congeneric with C. obliquesignatus . Catoptes sec. Kuschel includes Catoptes sec. Schönherr and Exonastus , Asaphia , Tigones , Platyomida , Getopsephus and Empaeotes (all sec. Broun) ( Figure 97 ). This concept of Catoptes is accepted by the present author, and no modifications are made here.

Figures

FIGURE 97. Taxonomic concept alignment showing the relationship between Catoptes sec. Broun and Irenimus sec. Kuschel. Yellow octagons: concepts unique to Broun. Green rectangles: concepts unique to Kuschel. Grey rounded rectangles: congruent concepts shared between the two authors. Solid black, arrowed lines: inclusion relationships between concepts. Thick blue dashed lines: strongly overlapping concepts. Thin blue dotted lines: narrowly overlapping concepts. Suffix “ _ imp ” show taxa not formally combined with Irenimus by Kuschel (1969), but which were strongly implied.