Two New Flightless Weevils in the Genus Metapocyrtus Heller (Coleoptera, Curculionidae, Entiminae) from Mt. Candalaga, Davao de Oro, Mindanao Island, Philippines.

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Dec 27, 2024
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Jayson Agbas Daven
Faculty of Computing, Data Sciences, Engineering, and Technology, Information Technology Program, Davao Oriental State University, Dahican, Mati City 8200 Philippines
Analyn A. Cabras
Faculty of Computing, Data Sciences, Engineering, and Technology, Information Technology Program, Davao Oriental State University, Dahican, Mati City 8200 Philippines. Terrestrial Invertebrate Research Laboratory, URESCOM, Davao Oriental State University, URESCOM, Dahican, City of Mati, 8200, Philippines.
Graden G. Obrial
Faculty of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Biology Program, Davao Oriental State University, Dahican, Mati City 8200 Philippines.

Keywords : Biodiversity, Davao de Oro, endemic, mimicry, Mt. Candalaga, new species, weevil.
Abstract

Two flightless weevils from the genus Metapocyrtus Heller, 1912 namely Metapocyrtus (Orthocyrtus) managusan Cabras, Agbas and Obrial, sp. nov. and Metapocyrtus sidlakan Cabras, Agbas and Obrial, sp. nov. are described and illustrated from Mt. Candalaga, Davao de Oro. Additional ecological and mimicry notes with other sympatric weevils are also provided.


 

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Jayson Agbas Daven, Faculty of Computing, Data Sciences, Engineering, and Technology, Information Technology Program, Davao Oriental State University, Dahican, Mati City 8200 Philippines

Faculty of Computing, Data Sciences, Engineering, and Technology, Information Technology Program, Davao Oriental State University, Dahican, Mati City 8200 Philippines

Analyn A. Cabras, Faculty of Computing, Data Sciences, Engineering, and Technology, Information Technology Program, Davao Oriental State University, Dahican, Mati City 8200 Philippines. Terrestrial Invertebrate Research Laboratory, URESCOM, Davao Oriental State University, URESCOM, Dahican, City of Mati, 8200, Philippines.

Faculty of Computing, Data Sciences, Engineering, and Technology, Information Technology Program, Davao Oriental State University, Dahican, Mati City 8200 Philippines.

Terrestrial Invertebrate Research Laboratory, URESCOM, Davao Oriental State University, URESCOM, Dahican, City of Mati, 8200, Philippines.

Graden G. Obrial, Faculty of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Biology Program, Davao Oriental State University, Dahican, Mati City 8200 Philippines.

Faculty of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Biology Program, Davao Oriental State University, Dahican, Mati City 8200 Philippines.

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