Trigonopterus allotopus
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| Trigonopterus allotopus | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Polyphaga |
| Infraorder: | Cucujiformia |
| Family: | Curculionidae |
| Genus: | Trigonopterus |
| Species: | T. allotopus |
| Binomial name | |
| Trigonopterus allotopus Riedel, 2014 | |
Trigonopterus allotopus is a species of flightless weevil in the genus Trigonopterus from Indonesia. The species was described in 2014. The beetle is 2.40 mm long. It has a wholly black body with reddish-brown antennae. Endemic to the island of Sumbawa in Indonesia, where it is known from Mount Batu Pasak at an elevation of 1,305 m (4,281 ft).
Trigonopterus allotopus was described by the entomologist Alexander Riedel in 2014 on the basis of an adult male specimen collected from Mount Batu Pasak on the island of Sumbawa in Indonesia. The specific epithet is derived from the Latinized forms of the Greek words allos, meaning "foreign", and topos, meaning "place". The name was chosen because T. allotopus is the most south-western of the species in the T. politus group.[1]