Global InformationAnagotus stephenensis information
| Ngaio weevil | |
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Conservation status
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 Nationally Critical (NZ TCS) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Infraorder: | Cucujiformia |
| Family: | Curculionidae |
| Genus: | Anagotus |
| Species: | A. stephenensis
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| Binomial name | |
| Anagotus stephenensis G. Kuschel, 1982
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| Synonyms[1] | |
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Anagotus stephenensis, commonly known as the ngaio weevil, is a large flightless weevil that is only found on Stephens Island in New Zealand. The ngaio weevil was discovered in 1916 by A.C. O'Connor on Stephens Island. Thomas Broun described it in 1921 as Phaeophanus oconnori after its collector. The weevils were observed at the time to be 'feeding on tall fescue and the leaves of trees'.[2]
- ^ Broun, Thomas (30 August 1910). Descriptions of new genera and species of coleoptera. Wellington, New Zealand: New Zealand Institute. p. 631. Retrieved 28 November 2016.
- ^ Kuschel, G; Worthy, TH (1996). "Past distribution of large weevils (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) in the South Island, New Zealand, based on Holocene fossil remains title" (PDF). New Zealand Entomologist. 19: 15–19. doi:10.1080/00779962.1996.9722016. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-01-24.