Gagatophorus tibialis is a weevil in the Amycterini tribe of the Curculionidae family, endemic to Western Australia.[1]

Gagatophorus tibialis
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Curculionidae
Genus: Gagatophorus
Species:
G. tibialis
Binomial name
Gagatophorus tibialis
(Ferguson, 1914)
Synonyms[1]

Macramycterus tibialis Ferguson, 1914

The species was first described by Eustace William Ferguson in 1914 as Macramycterus tibialis,[1][2] from a specimen collected at Shark Bay, Western Australia,[2] and was transferred to the genus, Gagatophorus, in 1993 by Elwood Curtin Zimmerman.[1][3]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d "Australian Faunal Directory:Gagatophorus tibialis". biodiversity.org.au. Retrieved 24 March 2022.
  2. ^ a b Ferguson, E.W. (1914). "Revision of the Amycterides Part III. Notonophes, Macramycterus, and genera allied to Talaurinus". Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales. 39 (2): 217–252 [241].
  3. ^ Zimmerman, E.C. (1993) Australian weevils (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea) Vol. III Nanophyidae, Rhynchophoridae, Erirhinidae, Curculionidae: Amycterinae. Melbourne : CSIRO Publications
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