| Eupholus petitii | |
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| Eupholus (schoenherri) petiti from New Guinea | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Family: | Curculionidae |
| Genus: | Eupholus |
| Species: | E. petitii |
| Binomial name | |
| Eupholus petitii Guérin-Méneville, 1841 | |
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Eupholus petitii is a disputed species of beetle belonging to the family Curculionidae. [1]
Eupholus petitii is now considered by some authors a subspecies of Eupholus schoenherri . [2] [3]
The species name schoenherri honours the Swedish entomologist Carl Johan Schönherr.
This species can be found in New Guinea
Eupholus (schoenherri) petiti is usually metallic bright blue-green, with four transverse unequally spaced black shining bands on elytra. The last band is strongly arched. Antennae are club-shaped, it has a longitudinal groove on the vertex and the extremity of thighs is blue. The blue-green colour derives from very small scales, covering all over the elytra. [4]
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