Species Tentegia bisignata (Pascoe, 1874)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Acalles bisignatus Pascoe, F.P. 1874. Additions to the Australian Curculionidae. Part VII. Annals and Magazine of Natural History iv 12(78): 412-419 [Date published June 1874] [417].
• Tentegia basalis Faust, J. 1892. Fünf neue Curculioniden von Australien. Stettiner Entomologische Zeitung 53: 179-184 [181] [subjective synonym].
• Tentegia quadrisignata Lea, A.M. 1910. Notes on Australian Curculionidae in the collection of the German Entomological National Museum of Berlin (Col.). Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 1910: 153-172; 505-526 [520] [subjective synonym].
• Tentegia quinquesinuata Lea, A.M. 1930. On some Coleoptera from northern Australia, collected by Dr. H. Basedow. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 54: 148-154 [153] [subjective synonym].
• Tentegia quinquesignata Zimmerman, 1994 [subsequent misspelling].

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] [661] (for T. quadrisignata and T. quinquesinuata (as T. quinquesignata))

Generic Combinations

• Tentegia bisignata (Pascoe, 1874). —
  Lea, A.M. 1913. Revision of the Australian Curculionidae belonging to the subfamily Cryptorhynchides. Part XII. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 38: 451-489 [474]

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Wet Tropics (WT)

General References

Escalona, H.E., Jennings, D. & Oberprieler, R. 2023. A dung-beetle imposter: revision of the Australian weevil genus Tentegia Pascoe and the dung-rolling behaviour of Tentegia stupida (Fabricius) (Curculionidae: Molytinae: Cryptorhynchini). Annales Zoologici, Warszawa 73(1): 111–151 (Redescription)

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