Didymus (beetle) explained

Didymus is a genus of beetles known as weevils (insects in the family Curculionidae).^[1] The genus contains the following species:

• Didymus bicostatus
• Didymus erroneous
• Didymus impexus
• Didymus intutus
• Didymus metrosideri
• Didymus setosus

The type species for this genus is Acalles intutus Pascoe, 1876 by original designation.^[2] Species from this genus are found in New Zealand, the Kermadec and the Norfolk Islands.

Notes and References

1. Watt. J. Charles. Terrestrial arthropods from the Poor Knights Islands, New Zealand. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand. September 1982. 12. 3. 283–320. 10.1080/03036758.1982.10415350. free.
2. Lyal . C. H. C. 1 . Cryptorhynchinae (Insecta: Coleoptera: Curculionidae) . Fauna of New Zealand . 2 December 1993 . 29 . 1–308 . 22 December 2015 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20130218101017/http://www.landcareresearch.co.nz/__data/assets/pdf_file/0017/49004/FNZ29Lyal1993150_001.pdf . 18 February 2013 .