''Ithystenus curvidens'' is a species of straight-snouted weevils belonging to the family

Brentidae Brentidae is a cosmopolitan distribution, cosmopolitan family of primarily xylophagy, xylophagous beetles also known as straight-snouted weevils; they have sometimes been called "primitive weevils", but this name also applies to taxa such as the ...

Distribution

This species can be found in

Papua New Guinea Papua New Guinea, officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is an island country in Oceania that comprises the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and offshore islands in Melanesia, a region of the southwestern Pacific Ocean n ...

, Bismarck Archipelago: New Britain; Woodlark Island; West Papua;

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References

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* Alessandra Sforzi

* Richard Kleine ttp://hbs.bishopmuseum.org/pubs-online/pdf/op11-1.pdf Checklist of the brentidae of Oceania* Gregory P. Setlif
Annotated checklist of weevils from the Papuan region
Brentidae Beetles described in 1855 Insects of Papua New Guinea {{Brentidae-stub