
Miguel Angel Alonso-ZarazagaSpanish National Research Council | CSIC · Colección de Entomología
Miguel Angel Alonso-Zarazaga
Dr.Sc.(Biology)
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Introduction
Current research involves systematics and distribution of Iberian Curculionoidea, Nomenclature of World Curculionoidea through the database WTaxa and description of new exotic taxa of Curculionoidea.
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August 2010 - August 2011
February 1989 - June 2019
February 1989 - present
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Publications (196)
Se aportan nuevos registros de dos especies de apioninos para Castilla – La Mancha: Pseudaplemonus chevrolati y Pseudaplemonus limonii, con ejemplares procedentes de varias localidades de Ciudad Real y Cuenca. La mayoría de los ejemplares proceden de la colección histórica De La Fuente. Se aportan datos sobre la planta nutricia para la segunda espe...
The present catalogue is an improved and updated edition of the one published in November 2017.It contains 1627 valid genera, 681 valid subgenera, 15,531 valid species, 1,013 valid subspecies and9,098 names of invalid or nomenclaturally unavailable species-group taxa belonging to the sevenfamilies of Coleoptera Curculionoidea recognised in the Pala...
Se citan 83 especies de Curculionoidea, de las familias Anthribidae, Attelabidae, Brentidae, Cimberididae
y Curculionidae. Son citas nuevas para 35 provincias españolas y dos distritos portugueses. Los datos
se obtuvieron tras el estudio de la colección entomológica reunida por el primer autor.
Se aportan las primeras localidades españolas concreta...
A review of genus-group names for darkling beetles in the family Tenebrionidae (Insecta: Coleoptera) is presented. A catalogue of 4122 nomenclaturally available genus-group names, representing 2307 valid genera (33 of which are extinct) and 761 valid subgenera, is given. For each name the author, date, page number, gender, type species, type fixati...
The weevil genus Moreiba, endemic to the Canary Islands, is revised based on morphological characters and molecular data (mtCO1). Eight new taxa are added to the single previously described species from El Hierro. These are: Moreiba canariensis auarita n. ssp. from La Palma; M. canariensis nivariana n. ssp., from Tenerife; M. tamarana n. sp. from G...
Se describe un nuevo género Pnoia gen. nov. basándose en el único sintipo conocido de Attelabus femoralis Fabricius, 1801, de Guyana. Este único sintipo se designa como lectotipo. Se propone la nueva combinación Pnoia femoralis y, además, Pnoia latipes (Sharp, 1891), comb. nov. se propone para Apion latipes. Se discuten los caracteres del nuevo gén...
Linnaeus described five species presently included in the genus Timarcha: Chrysomela goettingensis, Ten-ebrio caeruleus, Tenebrio laevigatus, Tenebrio latipes, and Tenebrio rugosus. After a study of the relevant material, the identity of these species has been established. The following synonyms are proposed or confirmed: Timarcha goettingensis (Li...
Apion carrorum Anderson and Alonso-Zarazaga, new species, is described from Plateau Mountain (50.20741° N, 114.52101° W), Alberta, Canada along the edges of melting snowfields at about 2,400 m elevation. This represents the first description of a species of the genus Apion Herbst in North America. It appears that the species is most similar to Apio...
Resumen: Se cita a Datonychus derennei (Guilleaume, 1936) por primera vez de la Península Ibérica a partir de dos ejemplares capturados en el Parque Nacional de Cabañeros, en la provincia de Ciudad Real. Se aportan datos biológicos y fenológicos. Palabras clave: Coleoptera, Curculionidae, Datonychus derennei, primera cita, Península Ibérica, Ciudad...
In this first part of the World catalogue of genus-group names in Elateridae, we provide a nomenclatural review of the genera belonging to 10 subfamilies. All names are given with author name, year and page of publication, type species, and type fixation. We list 132 valid genera in Agrypninae, 2 in Campyloxeninae, 4 in Hemiopinae, 11 in Lissominae...
Resumen: Se proporcionan nuevos datos sobre la distribución de 199 especies de gorgojos (Coleoptera, Curculionoidea) de la Península Ibérica e islas Baleares, resultando dos especies nuevas para España: Tanysphyrus lemnae (Fabricius, 1792) y Heyde-neonymus amplicollis (Boheman,). Se presenta un elenco actualizado de las especies ci-tadas del área,...
The terebratulide genus Petria Mendes, 1961 was described for a group of cryptonelloid brachiopods (Brachiopoda, Terebratulida) from the Carboniferous (Pennsylvanian) of the Amazonian region, Brazil. To our knowledge only the type species Waldheimia coutinhoana Derby, 1874 was placed in the genus. The genus name Petria Mendes, 1961 is pre-occupied...
The present paper is a result of the project “Inventory and study of the invertebrate fauna of the Caldera de Taburiente National Park on La Palma, Canary Islands. Among the four species of Pipunculidae recorded, Chalarus guanche Kehlmaier sp. nov. is described and also recorded from Madeira, whereas Tomosvaryella freidbergi De Meyer, 1995 and T. p...
Abstract. The purpose of this application, under Article 23.9.3 of the Code, is to conserve the specific name Chrysomela tenebricosa Fabricius, 1775 for a common and widespread species of European bloody-nosed beetle in the genus Timarcha (Chrysomelidae) by giving
it precedence over the misinterpreted and unused senior synonym Tenebrio laevigatus L...
Abstract. The purpose of this application under Article 23.9.3 of the Code is to conserve the name Orchestes Illiger, 1798 (Curculionoidea, Curculionidae), a large and well-known weevil genus, by giving it precedence over the little-used older name Salius Schrank, 1798
whenever these names are considered to be synonyms.
Taxonomy is a scientific discipline that has provided the universal naming and classification system of biodiversity for centuries and continues effectively to accommodate new knowledge. A recent publication by Garnett and Christidis [1] expressed concerns regarding the difficulty that taxonomic changes represent for conservation efforts and propos...
The present catalogue contains 1,611 valid genera, 678 valid subgenera, 15,407 valid species,
1,042 valid subspecies and 9,381 names of invalid or nomenclaturally unavailable species-group
or infrasubspecific taxa belonging to the six families of Coleoptera Curculionoidea recognised in
the Palaearctic Region.
New combinations are: Mecorhis holzschu...
Catalogue of the weevils of the Palaearctic Region
The new species, Limobius winkelmanni sp. n. is described, keyed, and illustrated. This enigmatic new species has seven desmomeres as other Hyperini-species, but according to shape of elytra and aedeagus, which are typical for representatives of Limobius, it is treated in this genus. The actualised key and check-list of Limobius is presented. The t...
The anaspidacean syncarid shrimps of the genera Anaspides Thomson, 1894, Allanaspides Swain, Wilson, Hickman & Ong, 1970, and Paranaspides Smith, 1908, have long been placed in the family Anaspididae Thomson, 1893. Anaspididae Thomson, 1893, however, was formed on a homonymous type genus, Anaspis Thomson, 1893, preoccupied by Anaspis Geoffroy, 1762...
The first collection of Cimberis attelaboides (Fabricius, 1787) at Honghuaerji, Inner Mongolia, northeast China, represents a new country record for the family Nemonychidae, increasing the number of recorded Chinese weevil families from 10 to 11. Cimberis attelaboides is redescribed and illustrated. It is associated with Scots pine, Pinus sylvestri...
Lakhonia Yang, 1936 (Heteroptera: Pentatomidae) and Lakhonia Descarpentries & Villiers, 1967 (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) have been found to be homonyms. The nomenclatural status for the buprestid is discussed and the replacement name Svataea Alonso-Zarazaga & Roca-Cusachs nom. nov. is proposed for this genus.
Resumen: Subhaptomerus frieseri avilai Alonso Zarazaga, 1983 fue descrito de Luciana (Ciudad Real) sobre crucíferas (Brassicaceae). Se discute la corrección de este último dato, se aporta información sobre la planta nutricia, Poa trivialis L. (Poaceae) y se amplía su distribución, siempre dentro de la provincia de Ciudad Real. Palabras clave: Coleo...
A new genus Evemphyron Alonso-Zarazaga, Lv & Wang, gen. n., belonging to Attelabidae Rhynchitinae,
is described. Its single species, Evemphyron sinense Alonso-Zarazaga, Lv & Wang, sp. n., was reared from
larvae found inside seed pods of the legume Callerya dielsiana (Fabaceae, Millettieae) in Sichuan Province
(China). The species is figured and pla...
Additions, corrections, comments and nomenclatural novelties for the volumes 7 and 8 of the Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera
are provided. For the exact authorship of these check the text. One new species is described: Mecinus tavaresi Caldara & Fogato, sp. nov. from Portugal and Spain. New synonymies are: Compsapoderus (Compsapoderus) erythropt...
The List of Available Names in Zoology
(LAN) is an inventory of names with specific scope in time and content, presented and approved in parts, and constituted as a cumulative index of names available for use in zoological nomenclature. It was defined in Article 79 in the fourth edition of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature. The LAN...
This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
The purpose of this application, under Articles 70.3, 74.7 and 81.1 of the Code, is to conserve the current usage of the beetle genus Thorectes Mulsant, 1842 (Insecta, Coleoptera, scarabaeoidea, geotrupidae) by confirmation of its type species Scarabaeus laevigatus Fabricius, 1798. This action will also stabilise the predominant usage of another ge...
The phylogenetic placement of Jekelius brullei (Jekel, 1866) and J. punctulatus (Jekel, 1866) (Coleoptera: Geotrupidae) was assessed using mitochondrial and nuclear molecular data to discern contrasting nomenclatural views provided by López-Colón (1996) and the Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera (Löbl et al. 2006). Our results support both the mon...
The syntypes of 41 species of Larinus Dejean described by L. Gyllenhal and C. H. Boheman, housed at the C. J. Schoenherr collection in the Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm and the Museum of Evolution, Uppsala University, are examined. Lectotypes are designated, a nomenclatural review performed, many previous synonyms confirmed and three...
Fauna Europaea provides a public web-service with an index of scientific names (including synonyms) of all living European land and freshwater animals, their geographical distribution at country level (up to the Urals, excluding the Caucasus region), and some additional information. The Fauna Europaea project covers about 230,000 taxonomic names, i...
Fauna Europaea provides a public web-service with an index of scientific names (including synonyms) of all living European land and freshwater animals, their geographical distribution at country level (up to the Urals, excluding the Caucasus region), and some additional information. The Fauna Europaea project covers about 230,000 taxonomic names, i...
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Bruchus undatus Fabricius, 1787 is transferred to the genus Attagenus Latreille, 1802 of Dermestidae. Attagenus hirtulus Rosenhauer, 1856 syn. nov., is put in synonymy with Attagenus undatus (Fabricius, 1787).
The types of thirty-two nominal weevil species described by Johann Christian Fabricius are reviewed and lecto- and paralectotypes are designated for twenty-two of them. A neotype is designated for Curculiosticticus Fabricius, 1777. Protapionvaripes (Germar, 1817) is declared a nomen protectum over Curculioflavipes Fabricius, 1775. Based on a study...
A group of 19 authors (Dubois et al. 2013) recently raised concerns about the latest Amendment to the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN 2012a,b,c), that allows new names and other nomenclatural acts to gain legislative acceptance (become "available") from publications issued and distributed electronically. Two editorials by publis...
Harpapion safranum
sp. n. and Harpapion borisi
sp. n. are described and figured. Harpapion vietnamense (Korotyaev, 1987) is recorded as new for China. The genitalia andterminalia of H. considerandum, H. coelebs andH. vietnamense are redescribed and redrawn. The diagnostic characters of Harpapion are defined. A key to the known species of the genus...
A new species, Larinus berti
sp. n. is described from Morocco and assigned to subgenus Cryphopus Petri, 1907 (Curculionidae: Lixinae; Lixini). Diagnostic characters of the new species are large size, elongate-ovate body, bisulcate sub-quadrangular rostrum, triangularly raised dorsum of rostrum, flat subgena and submentum, Y-shaped apodeme of sterni...
A new genus Moreiba is described for Strophosoma canariense Franz, 1995 (type species) and placed in Laparocerini. It differs from Laparocerus Schoenherr, 1834 by the small size, the strongly transverse rostrum, the dense longitudinal strigosity on head and rostrum, the body covered by dense, adpressed scales and short, semierect subspatulate to pa...
The Principle of Typification, defined by Chapter 13 of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (I.C.Z.N., 1999), from here on referred as “Code”, determines in Article 61.1. that each nominal taxon in the family, genus or species groups has actually or potentially a name-bearing type whose fixation provides the objective standard of refe...
The type specimens of species of Apionidae described by Carl Peter Thunberg are reviewed and lecto- and paralectotypes are designated for Apion craccae Thunberg, 1813, Apion limbatum Thunberg, 1813, Apion punctigerum Thunberg, 1815 and Apion astragali Thunberg, 1815. A new genus Thunbergapion (type species Apion limbatum Thunberg, 1813) is describe...
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The Chinese representatives of the entimine weevil genus Geotragus are here revised, including redescriptions of the two previously known species, G. himalayanus Boheman, 1845 and G tuberculatus Chen, 1990, and descriptions of three new species from the Hengduan Mountains, Yunnan province, China: G. brevidens sp. nov., G. declivis sp. nov. and G. r...
The preimaginal stages including egg, mature larva and pupa of Pseudaspidapion botanicum Alonso-Zarazaga & Wang, 2011 were described and figured, diagnostic characters of larva and pupa were discussed, and corresponding biological information was supplied. The nomenclature of frontal setae in the larva compared with curculionid weevils, the absence...
Alloxysta types from the Curtis collection have been examined. Three species of this genus are deposited in Museum Victoria: Alloxysta fulviceps (Curtis, 1838), A. pallidicornis (Curtis, 1838) and A. pedestris (Curtis, 1838). A. fulviceps was treated in a previous work. A. pallidicornis and A. pedestris are here considered valid species. Redescript...
It is generally accepted that knowledge of
the natural and novel host range of proposed biological
control agents can help to inform predictions of
potential host range in new areas of introduction. To
test this hypothesis, this paper describes a retrospective
study conducted to contrast and compare the natural
host range of Microctonus aethiopoide...
The application of the name Curculio echii Brahm, 1790 is discussed. Based on the description it is evident that it should be applied to a German species of the genus Rhabdorrhynchus, and that it has priority over the name currently applied to the species, Rhabdorrhynchus seriegranosus Chevrolat, 1873. The new combination Rhab-dorrhynchus echii (Br...
Two actions preserve taxal nomenclatural stability within Curculionidae in accordance with the Code. Following the provisions of ICZN Article 23.9.1 Curculio pellitus (Boheman, 1843) (formerly Balaninus) becomes a nomen protectum and Curculio gulosus Fabricius, 1792 a nomen oblitum; Curculio villosus Fabricius, 1781 becomes a nomen protectum and Cu...
This paper reports on the remarkable results we achieved with a novel, inexpensive collecting method, i.e. band-shelter trapping, during a survey conducted in 25 urban parks and greenbelts in the Beijing metropolitan area from April to October during 2007—2009. The trap was made of 3-cm wide, opaque, plastic fiber, wrapped around willow tree trunks...
A review of extinct and living amphibians known from fossils (Allocaudata, Anura and Caudata) has revealed several cases that require nomenclatural changes in order to stabilize the taxonomy of the group. Nomenclatural changes include homonym replacements, corrections of spelling variants and authorships, name availabilities, and in particular, the...
The number of described species on the planet is about 1.9 million, with ca. 17,000 new species described annually, mostly from the tropics. However, taxonomy is usually described as a science in crisis, lacking manpower and funding, a politically acknowledged problem known as the Taxonomic Impediment. Using data from the Fauna Europaea database an...
Cumulative number of valid species of terrestrial and freshwater multicellular animals recorded in Europe. Numbers of valid species described since Linnaeus (1758) are plotted against the description year for selected phyla, major classes and major insect orders. These groups are not of equivalent taxonomic rank but were divided as such to demonstr...
Information on natural and novel host range of proposed biological control agents can help to inform predictions of
potential host range in new areas of introduction. A retrospective study was conducted to compare the natural host range
of Microctonus aethiopoides Loan (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) with its novel host range found in Australia and New
Z...
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Melolontha emarginata Gyllenhal, 1817 is designated as the type species of Elaphocerida Reitter, 1902. The type specimens of the species of genus Elaphocera Gené, 1836, from the entomological collections of Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (Madrid, Spain), are studied. Lectotypes are designated for species Elaphocera (Elaphocerida) ampla Báguen...
The dung beetle genus Aphodius and the rhinoceros beetle genus Oryctes rank among the more widely used scientific insect names. Both have been attributed to Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger who had introduced those names in his "Verzeichniss der Käfer Preussens" in 1798. The names are undisputed and stable. The discovery of a preview of Illiger’s book,...