The Weevil Genus Rhamphus (Curculionidae, Curculioninae) in Southern Africa—Description of Thirteen New Species

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

Comments and Suggestions for Authors

Congratulation to this paper! It is interesting so many new taxa in genus not previously reported from southern Africa. This genus is not easy to work, because of its small size. Unfortunately it is not also often collected. It is advantage authors were able to get so many material from this region.

I have no any serious comment, the manuscript was written carefully and in detail. Results are clear, definitions of species are well done, key is well done. Some type errors I indicated continuously in the manuscript. I can only recommend clarification of abbreviations in locality label data. It is better to clarify W means Western Cape, E means Eastern Cape and some others.

There are also some inaccuracies in formal arrangement, which is not task for authors, but for editors. Not all headings are separated from previous text by space, not all headings are in bold.

Roman

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Reviewer 2 Report

Comments and Suggestions for Authors

The article is relevant to the study of Curculionidae, especially because they are neglected groups due to their small size. Check the terminology for the penis.

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Reviewer 3 Report

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The paper is of great interest. I would only mention that the "Methods" section could be improved. It doesn't clearly specify that the material comes from both sources: museums and field samples. Regarding the samples, there is little information, for instance, the sampling frequency, if any, is not mentioned.

 

 

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