Trigonopterus allotopus

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Phylum:Arthropoda
Class:Insecta
Suborder:Polyphaga
Trigonopterus allotopus
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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]

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