Ottistirini

Ottistirini
Maleuterpes spinipes
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Infraorder:	Cucujiformia
Family:	Curculionidae
Subfamily:	Entiminae
Tribe:	Ottistirini Heller, 1925

Ottistirini is a weevil tribe in the beetle family Curculionidae. There are about 18 genera and more than 110 described species in Ottistirini. Most are found on Pacific islands, Australia, New Zealand, and Singapore.[1][2][3]

Genera

These 18 genera belong to the tribe Ottistirini:[2]

• Atrotitis Heller, 1925 - Papua New Guinea
• Ecezius Thompson, 1982 - the Solomon Islands
• Eutinophaea Pascoe, 1870 - New Guinea, Australia, Indonesia
• Ittostira Heller, 1925 - Philippines, Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, Taiwan
• Leacis Zimmerman, 1939 - Fiji
• Maleuterpes Blackburn, 1894 - New Caledonia, Australia, New Zealand
• Nesogenocis Lea, 1930 - Fiji
• Ottinychus Marshall, 1931 - Fiji, Samoa, Vanuatu
• Ottistira Pascoe, 1872 - Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, New Caledonia
• Ottistirellus Oberprieler R.G. & Zimmerman, 2020 - Australia
• Ottistirodes Oberprieler R.G. & Zimmerman, 2020 - Australia
• Reidius Oberprieler & Zimmerman, 2020 - Australia
• Schauenbergia Osella, 1977 - Réunion
• Syzygops Schoenherr, 1826 - Réunion, Mauritius
• Tistortia Heller, 1925 - Papua New Guinea
• Tistortiella Heller, 1925 - Papua New Guinea
• Tregoleus Oberprieler R.G. & Zimmerman, 2020 - Australia
• Weirius Oberprieler R.G. & Zimmerman, 2020 - Australia

References

1. Alonso-Zarazaga, Miguel A.; Lyal, Christopher H. C. (1999). A World Catalogue of Families and Genera of Curculionoidea (Insecta: Coleoptera) (Excepting Scotylidae and Platypodidae). Entomopraxis. ISBN 978-84-605-9994-4.
2. "Catalogue of Life, Ottistirini Heller, 1925". Retrieved 2024-09-30.
3. Bouchard, Patrice; Bousquet, Yves; Davies, Anthony E.; Alonso-Zarazaga, Miguel A.; et al. (2011). "Family-group names in Coleoptera (Insecta)". ZooKeys (88): 1–972. doi:10.3897/zookeys.88.807. PMC 3088472. PMID 21594053.

• Alonso-Zarazaga, M.A.; Lyal, C.H.C. 1999: A world catalogue of families and genera of Curculionoidea (Insecta: Coleoptera) (excepting Scolytidae and Platypodidae). Entomopraxis, Barcelona.
• Heller, K.M. 1925: Bestimmungsschlüssel aussereuropäischer Käfer. Curculionidae, Tribus n.: Ottistirini. Wiener Entomologische Zeitung, 42(4-10): 55-91 + pl. I.
• Kuschel, G. 2008: Curculionoidea (weevils) of New Caledonia and Vanuatu: ancestral families and some Curculionidae. In: Grandcolas, P. (ed.), Zoologia Neocaledonica 6. Biodiversity studies in New Caledonia. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, 197: 99-250. ISBN 9782856536056 ISSN 1243-4442
• Oberprieler, R.G. 2010: A reclassification of the weevil subfamily Cyclominae (Coleoptera: Curculionidae). Zootaxa, 2515: 1–35.
• Zimmerman, E.C. 1939: Revision of the Fijian Ottistirini (Coleoptera, Curculionidae). Occasional papers of the Bernice P. Bishop Museum, 14: 301–312.