Trigonopterus bawangensis

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Phylum:Arthropoda
Class:Insecta
Suborder:Polyphaga
Trigonopterus bawangensis
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Suborder: Polyphaga
Infraorder: Cucujiformia
Family: Curculionidae
Genus: Trigonopterus
Species:
T. bawangensis
Binomial name
Trigonopterus bawangensis
Riedel, 2014

Trigonopterus bawangensis is a species of flightless weevil in the genus Trigonopterus from Indonesia. The species was described in 2014. The beetle is 1.90–2.48 mm long. It is mostly ferruginous, with a dark ferruginous to black pronotum. Endemic to Borneo, where it is known only from Mount Bawang at elevations of 246–556 m (810–1,820 ft).

Trigonopterus bawangensis was described by the entomologist Alexander Riedel in 2014 on the basis of an adult male specimen collected from Mount Bawang on the island of Borneo in Indonesia. The species is named its type locality.[1]

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