Species Sipalinus gigas (Fabricius, 1775)

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• Curculio gigas Fabricius, J.C. 1775. Systema Entomologiae, sistens Insectorum Classes, Ordines, Genera, Species, adiectis Synonymis, Locis, Descriptionibus, Observationibus. Flensburgi et Lipsiae [= Flensburg & Leipzig] : Kortii xxxii 832 pp. [Date published 17 April] [127].
• Calandra granulata Fabricius, J.C. 1801. Systema Eleutheratorum secundum ordines, genera, species: adiectis synonymis, locis, observationibus, descriptionibus. Kiliae : Bibliopolii Academici Novi Vol. II 687 pp. [432] [subjective synonym].
• Sipalus hypocrita Schoenherr, C.J. 1845. Genera et species curculionidum, cum synonymia hujus familiae. Species novae aut hactenus minus cognitae, descriptionibus a Dom. Leonardo Gyllenhal, C.H. Boheman, et entomologis aliis illustratae. Paris : Roret Vol. 8(2) pp. 1-504. [209] [subjective synonym].
• Sipalus misumenus Schoenherr, C.J. 1845. Genera et species curculionidum, cum synonymia hujus familiae. Species novae aut hactenus minus cognitae, descriptionibus a Dom. Leonardo Gyllenhal, C.H. Boheman, et entomologis aliis illustratae. Paris : Roret Vol. 8(2) pp. 1-504. [210] [subjective synonym].
• Sipalus tinctus Walker, F. 1859. Characters of some apparently undescribed Ceylon insects. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 3 4: 217-224 [Date published 31/12/1859] [218] [subjective synonym].
• Sipalus cristatus Schaufuss, L.W. 1885. Beitrag zur fauna der Niederlaendischen besitzungen auf den Sunda-Inseln. Horae Societatis Entomologicae Rossicae 19: 183-209 [204] [subjective synonym].
• Sipalus chinensis Fairmaire, L. 1887. Coléoptères de l'interieur de la Chine. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 31: 87-136 [130] [subjective synonym].
• Sipalus formosanus Kôno, H. 1934. Die Sipalinen Japans (Col. Curc.). Insecta Matsumurana 9: 6-8 [subjective synonym].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Schaufuss, L.W. 1885. Beitrag zur fauna der Niederlaendischen besitzungen auf den Sunda-Inseln. Horae Societatis Entomologicae Rossicae 19: 183-209 (for S. granulatus)
• Marshall, G.A.K. 1930. New Curculionidae with notes on synonymy. Annals and Magazine of Natural History x 6: 551-577, figs 1-3 (for S. tinctus)
• Csiki, E. 1936. Curculionidae: Rhynchophorinae, Cossoninae. Coleopterorum Catalogus 149: 1-212 [Date published 15-VIII-1936] [84-85]
• Voss, E. 1958. Ein beitrag zur Kenntnis der Curculioniden im Grenzgebeit der orientalischen zur paläarktischen region. (Col, Curc.) Die von J. Klapperich und Tschung Sen in der Provinz Fukien gesammelten Rüsselkäfer. Decheniana 5: 1-139 [Date published June 1958] (for S. chinensis, S. formosanus and S. hypocrita)
• Vaurie, P. 1971. Weevils of the tribe Sipalini (Coleoptera, Curculionidae, Rhynchophorinae) Part 3. The genus Sipalinus. American Museum Novitates 2463: 1-43, figs 1-53 [19] (for S. misumenus and S. cristatus — as synonyms of S. gigas granulatus)

Generic Combinations

• Sipalinus granulatus (Fabricius, 1801). —
  Marshall, G.A.K. 1943. New Indian Curculionidae (Col.). Annals and Magazine of Natural History XI 10: 105-119 [119]
• Sipalinus gigas granulatus (Fabricius, 1801). —
  Vaurie, P. 1971. Weevils of the tribe Sipalini (Coleoptera, Curculionidae, Rhynchophorinae) Part 3. The genus Sipalinus. American Museum Novitates 2463: 1-43, figs 1-53 [19]

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