Species Menechirus fuscodorsalis (Heller, 1922)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Menechirus fuscodorsalis Heller, K.M. 1922. New Philippine Coleoptera. Philippine Journal of Science 19(5): 523-627, pls 1-3 [Date published 15 February 1922] [556].
• Sigastus tropicus Lea, A.M. 1928. Australian Curculionidae of the subfamily Haplonycides and Cryptorhynchides. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 52: 95-164, pls 7-9 [103] [subjective synonym].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Zimmerman, E.C. 1994. Australian weevils (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea). Melbourne : CSIRO Vol. 1. Orthoceri: Anthribidae to Attelabidae: the primitive weevils pp. i-xxxii, 1-741. [Date published 28 February] [677] (for S. tropicus)

Generic Combinations

• Sigastus fuscodorsalis (Heller, 1921). —
  Zimmerman, E.C. 1994. Australian Weevils (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea). Melbourne : CSIRO Australia Vol. I, 2. [677]
• Menechirus fuscodorsalis Heller, 1922 [status revised, removed from Signatus]. —
  Jennings, D. & Oberprieler, R.G. 2018. A review of the tribe Cryptoplini (Coleoptera: Curculioninae), with revision of the genus Menechirus Hartmann, 1901 and description of a new genus associated with Macadamia. Diversity 10, 70: 32 pp. [Date published 23 July 2018]

Distribution

States

Northern Territory

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Central Arnhem (CA), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Pine Creek (PCK)

Ecological Descriptors

Plant associated (associated flora: Syzygium suborbiculare [MYRTACEAE]; Syzygium armstrongii [MYRTACEAE]).

History of changes