Species Listroderes difficilis Germain, 1895

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• Listroderes difficilis Germain, P. 1895. Apuntes sobre los insectos de Chile I estudios i descripcion de los Listroderitos de Chile i tierras magallanicas do la coleccion del museo Nacional i de la de Don Fernando Paulsen (Continuacion). Anales de la Universidad de Chile 91: 53-104, pl. 3 [68].
• Desiantha nociva Lea, A.M. 1909. Descriptions of Australian Curculionidae, with notes on previously described species. Part VII. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 33: 145-196 [174] [subjective synonym].
• Listroderes hypocrita Hustache, A. 1926. Contribution à l'étude des Curculionides de la republique Argentine (Première note). Anales del Museo Nacional de Historia Natural 'Bernardino Rivadavia' 34: 155-261, pls 1-5 [197] [subjective synonym].
• Listroderes vicinus Hustache, A. 1926. Contribution à l'étude des Curculionides de la republique Argentine (Première note). Anales del Museo Nacional de Historia Natural 'Bernardino Rivadavia' 34: 155-261, pls 1-5 [199] [subjective synonym].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Germain, P. 1903. Apuntes entomolójicos. Anales de la Universidad de Chile 113: 391-445 [393] (for L. difficilis, as probable syn. of L. lugubris Germain, 1895)
• Buchanan, L.L. 1937. Nomenclature of Listroderes obliquus Klug (the vegetable weevil) (Coleoptera: Curculionidae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 38: 204-208 [205] (for D. novica and D. nociva, as synonyms of Listroderes obliquus Klug)
• Kuschel, G. 1946. Comentario a los tipos mas antiguos de "Listroderes" de La Obra de Schoenherr. Apartado de Agricultura Tecnica, Chile 6(2): 135-140 [139] (for L. difficilis, as syn. of L. costirostris obliquus)
• Wibmer, G.J. & O'Brien, C.W. 1986. Annotated checklist of the weevils (Curculionidae sensu lato) of South America (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea). Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 39: i-xvi + 1-563 [113] (reinstatement of L. difficilis as distinct sp. (action by G. Kuschel); syn. of D. novica and D. nociva under L. difficilis)
• Morrone, J.J. 1993. Systematic revision of the costirostris species group of the weevil genus Listroderes Schoenherr (Coleoptera: Curculionidae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society 119(4): 271-315 [303] (for L. difficilis, as syn. of L. costirostris Schoenherr)
• Morrone, J.J. 2002. On the species of the Listroderes costirostris complex (Coleoptera: Curculionidae). Neotropica (La Plata) 48: 70-72 [71] (reinstatement of L. difficilis as distinct species)

Generic Combinations

• Listroderes nociva (Lea, 1909). —
  McCarthy, T. 1924. The brown vegetable weevil (Listroderes [Desiantha] nociva). Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales 35: 573-580 [573]

General References

Morrone, J.J. 1993. Systematic revision of the costirostris species group of the weevil genus Listroderes Schoenherr (Coleoptera: Curculionidae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society 119(4): 271-315

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