
%0 Journal Article
%A Thompson, RT 
%T The species of <I>Phaenomerus</I> Sch&ouml;nherr (Coleoptera : Curculionidae : Zygopinae) of the Australian region
%J Invertebrate Systematics
%D 1996/10/01
%V 10
%N 5
%P 937-993
%K 
%R https://doi.org/10.1071/IT9960937
%U https://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/IT9960937 
%X Problems of defining the genus Phaenomerus Sch&ouml;nherr and the family group Campyloscelini to which it belongs are discussed. To the three previously described species of Phaenomerus from the Australian region are added 22 new species:P. ambonensis, P. cavipectus, P. contrarius, P. conturbator, P. excelsior, P. densleonis, P. fuliginosus, P. hornabrooki, P. kalamanus, P. laminifer, P. minutus, P. occultus, P. okapicus, P. peregrinator, P. pertenuis, P. riedeli, P. teretirostris, spp. nov., and three new subspecies: P. cavipectus insularis, P. peregrinator salomonicus, P. peregrinator terraereginae, subspp. nov. Lectotypes are designated for P. exilis Pascoe and P. lineatus Pascoe. A key to speciesgroup taxa is provided, together with figures of the male genitalia. A new structure, the flagellum guide, is described and figured. The ecological relations existing between some Phaenomerus species and species of Cyphagogus (Curculionoidea : Brentidae), including saprophagy by the former and predation by the latter on ambrosia beetles (Curculionoidea : Platypodidae), are described. 
