Nesiobius barbatus Wollaston, 1877:161
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Nesiotes barbatus Wollaston, 1877:161
Conservation Status
Missing (Fowler et al., 2025) or Extinct
Last record: 1876 (Fowler et al., 2025); 1880 (source)
IUCN RedList status: Critically Endangered (Possibly Extinct)
Distribution & Habitat
St. Helena, South Atlantic Ocean
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Wollaston, Thomas Vernon. (1877). Coleoptera Sancta-Helenae. London: John van Voorst.
Other references:
America, S. (1999). St Helena. Biodiversity: the UK Overseas Territories, 101.
Decelle, J. and Voss, E. (1972). Curculionidae. In: Basilewsky, P. (Ed.). La faune terrestre de l'île de Sainte-Hélène. Deuxième partie. Annales du Musée Royal de l'Afrique Centrale, Zoologie. 192: 306-515.
Fowler, L., Stevens, N., Key, R., Peyton, J., Scipio-O'Dean, C. J., Sherwood, D., Sharp, A. and Wilkins, V. L. (2025). Nesiobius barbatus. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2025: e.T68446813A68446816. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2025-1.RLTS.T68446813A68446816.en. Accessed on 07 August 2026.
Mendel, Howard, Ashmole, Philip and Ashmole, Myrtle. (2008/2013). Invertebrates of the Central Peaks and Peak Dale, St Helena. Report to the St Helena National Trust. 122pp. [originally published in 2008; taxonomy updated by David Pryce in 2013]
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