Pentamerica pentamera

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Curculionoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Pancrustacea Cladus: Allotriocarida Subphylum: Hexapoda Classis: Insecta Cladus: Dicondylia Subclassis: Pterygota Infraclassis: Neoptera Cladus: Eumetabola Cladus: Holometabola Superordo: Coleopterida Ordo: Coleoptera Subordo: Polyphaga Infraordo: Cucujiformia Superfamilia: Curculionoidea

Familia: Curculionidae
Subfamilia: Entiminae
Tribus: Namaini
Genus: Pentamerica
Species: Pentamerica pentamera

Name

Pentamerica pentamera (Borovec & Meregalli, 2013)

Type locality: South Africa, Northern Cape, Richtersveld National Park, mountain S of Helskloof Pass, 28°21.416'S 16°58.899'E, 815 m.

Holotype: TMSA. male ♂. 22.IX.2012. legit M. Meregalli.

Synonymy

• Nama pentamera Borovec & Meregalli, 2013: 506 (original combination)
• Pentamerica pentamera (Borovec & Meregalli): Meregalli et al., 2021: 108

References

Primary references

• Borovec, R. & Meregalli, M. 2013. Soil insect research in South Africa. 1. A new genus of terricolous weevils with four new species from the Richtersveld National Park (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Entiminae: Trachyphloeini). Zootaxa 3646(5): 501–515. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3646.5.1 Reference page. 

Additional references

• Meregalli, M., Borovec, R., Cervella, P., Santovito, A., Toševski, I., Ottati, S. & Nakládal, O. 2021. The Namaini, a new weevil tribe with six new genera from South Africa (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Entiminae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 193: 95–123. Reference page.