Hybomorphus melanosomus Saunders & Jekel, 1855
Lord Howe Island ground weevil
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Extinct (fide Reid et al., 2024:15)
Last record: 1853 (Reid et al., 2024:15); June 1869 or before?; 1889 (DECC NSW, 2007)
Distribution
Lord Howe Island, New South Wales, Australia
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Saunders, W. W. and Jekel, H. (1855). Descriptions de quelques Curculionites. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France (3)3: 289-306 + pl. 15.
Other references:
Braby, Michael F. (2019). Are insects and other invertebrates in decline in Australia? Austral Entomology 58(3): 471-477. https://doi.org/10.1111/aen.12411
Department of Environment and Climate Change (NSW). (2007). Lord Howe Island Biodiversity Management Plan Appendices. Department of Environment and Climate Change (NSW), Sydney. vii + 267 pp.
Oberprieler, R. G. and Zimmerman, E. C. (2020). Australian Weevils (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea). Volume IV. Melbourne: CSIRO Publishing.
Olliff, A. S. (1889). The insect fauna of Lord Howe Island. Australian Museum Memoir 2(4): 75-98.
Reid, Chris A. M., Hutton, Ian and Reid, Ewan C. A. (2024). The Australian Museum and Friends of Lord Howe Island survey of large Coleoptera on Lord Howe Island, August 2022. Technical Reports of the Australian Museum Online 41: 1-17. https://doi.org/10.3853/j.1835-4211.41.2024.1804
Woinarski, John C. Z., Braby, M. F., Burbidge, A. A., Coates, D., Garnett, S. T., Fensham, R. J., Legge, S. M., McKenzie, N. L., Silcock, J L. and Murphy, B. P. (2019). Reading the black book: The number, timing, distribution and causes of listed extinctions in Australia. Biological Conservation 239: 108261. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2019.108261
http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/determinations/LordHoweIslandGroundWeevilExtSpListing.htm