Genus Cossonus Clairville, 1798

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• Cossonus Clairville, J.P. 1798. Entomologie helvétique ou catalogue des insectes de la Suisse rangés d'après une nouvelle méthode./ Helvetische Entomologie oder Verzeichniss der Schweizer Insecten, nach eine neuen Methode geordnet mit Beschreibungen und Abbildungen. Zürich : Orell, Füssli & Co. Vol. 1 149 pp. + 16 pl. [58].

  Type species:

   Curculio linearis Fabricius, 1775 by subsequent designation, see Latreille, P.A. 1810. Considération Générales sur l'Order Naturel des Animaux Composant les Classes des Crustacés, des Arachnides et des Insectes; avec un Tableau Méthodique de leurs Genres Disposés en Familles. Paris : F. Schoell viii 444 pp. [this work is the subject of Opinions 11 and 136, ICZN, and is on the Official List of Works approved as available for Zoological Nomenclature] [431].
• Borophloeus Wollaston, T.V. 1873. On the genera of the Cossonidae. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1873(4): 427-657 [Date published Oct. 1873] [484].

  Type species:

   Borophloeus puncticollis Wollaston (= Cossonus corticola Say, 1831) by subsequent designation, see Hlaváĉ, P. & Maughan, N. 2013. New nomenclatural and taxonomic acts, and comments — Curculionidae: Cossoninae. pp. 58-59 in Löbl, I. & Smetana, A. Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera. Vol. 8. Curculionoidea II. Leiden : Brill 700 pp. [58]; Hlaváĉ, P. & Maughan, N. 2013. New nomenclatural and taxonomic acts, and comments — Curculionidae: Cossoninae. pp. 58-59 in Löbl, I. & Smetana, A. Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera. Vol. 8. Curculionoidea II. Leiden : Brill 700 pp. [58].
• Isotrogus Wollaston, T.V. 1873. On the genera of the Cossonidae. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1873(4): 427-657 [Date published Oct. 1873] [483].

  Type species:

   Isotrogus tabellatus Wollaston, 1873 by subsequent designation, see Hlaváĉ, P. & Maughan, N. 2013. New nomenclatural and taxonomic acts, and comments — Curculionidae: Cossoninae. pp. 58-59 in Löbl, I. & Smetana, A. Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera. Vol. 8. Curculionoidea II. Leiden : Brill 700 pp. [59].
• Heterophasis Wollaston, T.V. 1873. On the genera of the Cossonidae. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1873(4): 427-657 [Date published Oct. 1873] [483].

  Type species:

   Heterophasis ruficollis Wollaston, 1873 by subsequent designation, see Voss, E. 1974. Chapter VI. Coleoptera Curculionidae partim. pp. 395-479 in Hanström, B., Brinck, P. & Rudebeck, G. South African Animal Life. Results of the Lund University Expedition in 1950–1951. Vol. XV. Stockholm : Swedish Natural Science Research Council pp. 395-479. [475].
• Hyponotus Wollaston, T.V. 1873. On the genera of the Cossonidae. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1873(4): 427-657 [Date published Oct. 1873] [484].

  Type species:

   Hyponotus subpubescens Wollaston, 1873 by monotypy.
• Drepocossonus Voss, E. 1939. Rhynchiten, Attelabinen und Cossoninen aus dem Kongo-Gebiet (Col., Curc.). Revue de Zoologie et de Botanique Africaines 32(1): 42-82 [68].

  Type species:

   Cossonus hartmanni Voss, 1939 by monotypy.
• Caenocossonus Voss, E. 1955. Zur Synonymie und systematische Stellung europäischer Cossonine-Gattungen unter Berücksichtigung einiger gattungen der madeirischen Fauna. Mitteilungen der Münchener Entomologischen Gesellschaft 44-45: 182-239 [208].

  Type species:

   Cossonus cylindricus Sahlberg, 1835 by original designation.
• Odontocossonus Voss, E. 1956. Die von Dr. Christa Lindemann und Nina Pavlitski in Tanganjika gesammelten Curculioniden. (132. Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Curculioniden.). Annales Historico-Naturales Musei Nationalis Hungarici (Zoologica) 3: 161-193 [Date published 1 Feb. 1956] [184].

  Type species:

   Cossonus dentatipes Voss, 1956 by original designation.
• Otiorcossonus Voss, E. 1956. Die von Dr. Christa Lindemann und Nina Pavlitski in Tanganjika gesammelten Curculioniden. (132. Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Curculioniden.). Annales Historico-Naturales Musei Nationalis Hungarici (Zoologica) 3: 161-193 [Date published 1 Feb. 1956] [184].

  Type species:

   Cossonus major Voss, 1934 by original designation.

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] [643] (for Hyponotus)

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