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[Main] [Bakukang, et al. Notes] Due to some suspicious methods and doubtful data observed on recently published "new" species in 2020 such as Metapocyrtus latifasciatus , M. tagabawa , M. pulangi , and Pachyrhynchus mindoroensis ,  the species listed below which have been declared by some researchers as "new" in 2019 from the Philippines shall be subjected to scrutiny to ensure that data presented for each species is accurate and verifiable. Locality data is easily verifiable if publications presented control numbers of government-issued permits such as the Wildlife Gratuitous Permit, Local Transport Permit (if interprovincial transport occurred), and Wildlife Export Certification (if specimens were transported outside of the Philippines, such as Europe). Evaluating the articles listed in the references may reveal how these specimens were acquired and transported if currently deposited outside of the country. Such details can be helpful in tracing the documentatio...

[Main]   [Bakukang, et al. Notes] New species of beetles are constantly being discovered in the Philippines[1][3]. Currently, studies on Philippine weevils are scarce. Checklists of species in the country are hard to find. As of writing, only a few entomologists are studying the weevils of the Philippines. Recent studies on this group of beetles are focused on documentation of species and their distribution. New species of weevils are being discovered every year since 2015. And each year, more than one new species are being described. In fact, in the year 2016 eighteen species were described and named (Figure 1)[2, 4, 5, 6]. One species belong to the genus Macrocyrtus , and 17 species belong to the genus Pachyrhynchus. Below is a list of the 18 species described in 2016. 1.  Macrocyrtus rukmaneae Baršervskis, 2016 Moved to genus Eupachyrrhynchus  Heller, 1912 (see pages 337-340 of Reference 7) 2.  Pachyrhynchus rukmaneae Baršervskis, 2016 3....