Didymus metrosideri | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Coleoptera |
Infraorder: | Cucujiformia |
Family: | Curculionidae |
Genus: | Didymus |
Species: | D. metrosideri
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Binomial name | |
Didymus metrosideri (Broun, 1910)
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Didymus metrosideri is an endemic weevil from the Kermadec Islands in New Zealand. [2] This species was discovered by W. L. Wallace during the 1908 Kermedec Islands expedition.
D. metrosideri was originally described by Thomas Broun as Acalles metrosiderae. [3] In 1982 G. Kuschel proposed that the new genus Didymus replace the original genus Acalles. [2]
Specimens of this beetle have been discovered on Raoul Island and on Macauley Island. [4]