98 (!) new species of weevils described in a recent paper

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Recently, a paper was published in the open-access journal ZooKeys, in which 98 new species of weevils from the genus Trigonopterus are described. Members of the genus Trigonopterus are stout-bodied, wingless weevils, which mainly inhabit tropical forests. Apparently, there is a huge chunk of unknown diversity in this genus, as some of the authors of this paper already described 101 new species from the genus in 2013.

Read more about the new species here, and have a look at two of the new species below.

[wollastoni]

Impressive
Thanks for sharing

[nomihoudai]

They have a project where they check leaf litter in Java since several years. Obviously you will find an impressive number of species and obviously there will be much unknown things. They are small and dull, not of any interest for collectors . I know the author personally as he is from the local museum. He takes great care and effort in taking proper photographs of the beetles, I like his technique. Another great paper by him is the finding of a screw joint in the leg of one of these beetles -> www.sciencemag.org/content/333/6038/52.abstract . For these investigations they used the ANKA synchrotron next to my place of work and made it into AAAS Science! Truly some great work going on by Alexander Riedel.