Ottistirini is a weevil tribe in the beetle family Curculionidae. There are about 18 genera and more than 110 described species in Ottistirini. Most are found on Pacific islands, Australia, New Zealand, and Singapore.
Genera
These 18 genera belong to the tribe Ottistirini:
- Atrotitis <small>Heller, 1925</small> - Papua New Guinea
- Ecezius <small>Thompson, 1982</small> - the Solomon Islands
- Eutinophaea <small>Pascoe, 1870</small> - New Guinea, Australia, Indonesia
- Ittostira <small>Heller, 1925</small> - Philippines, Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, Taiwan
- Leacis <small>Zimmerman, 1939</small> - Fiji
- Maleuterpes <small>Blackburn, 1894</small> - New Caledonia, Australia, New Zealand
- Nesogenocis <small>Lea, 1930</small> - Fiji
- Ottinychus <small>Marshall, 1931</small> - Fiji, Samoa, Vanuatu
- Ottistira <small>Pascoe, 1872</small> - Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, New Caledonia
- Ottistirellus <small>Oberprieler R.G. & Zimmerman, 2020</small> - Australia
- Ottistirodes <small>Oberprieler R.G. & Zimmerman, 2020</small> - Australia
- Reidius <small>Oberprieler & Zimmerman, 2020</small> - Australia
- Schauenbergia <small>Osella, 1977</small> - Réunion
- Syzygops <small>Schoenherr, 1826</small> - Réunion, Mauritius
- Tistortia <small>Heller, 1925</small> - Papua New Guinea
- Tistortiella <small>Heller, 1925</small> - Papua New Guinea
- Tregoleus <small>Oberprieler R.G. & Zimmerman, 2020</small> - Australia
- Weirius <small>Oberprieler R.G. & Zimmerman, 2020</small> - Australia
References
- Alonso-Zarazaga, M.A.; Lyal, C.H.C. 1999: A world catalogue of families and genera of Curculionoidea (Insecta: Coleoptera) (excepting Scolytidae and Platypodidae). Entomopraxis, Barcelona.
- Heller, K.M. 1925: Bestimmungsschlüssel aussereuropäischer Käfer. Curculionidae, Tribus n.: Ottistirini. Wiener Entomologische Zeitung, 42(4-10): 55-91 + pl. I.
- Kuschel, G. 2008: Curculionoidea (weevils) of New Caledonia and Vanuatu: ancestral families and some Curculionidae. In: Grandcolas, P. (ed.), Zoologia Neocaledonica 6. Biodiversity studies in New Caledonia. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, 197: 99-250.
- Oberprieler, R.G. 2010: A reclassification of the weevil subfamily Cyclominae (Coleoptera: Curculionidae). Zootaxa, 2515: 1âÂÂ35.
- Zimmerman, E.C. 1939: Revision of the Fijian Ottistirini (Coleoptera, Curculionidae). Occasional papers of the Bernice P. Bishop Museum, 14: 301âÂÂ312.