'''''Scolopterus''''' is a genus of weevils from the family [[Curculionidae]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.nzor.org.nz/names/a8731237-b51e-43ab-a384-6c46d6fd9fb2|title=Scolopterus|website=www.nzor.org.nz|publisher=Landcare Research New Zealand Ltd|access-date=2017-08-12}}</ref> This genus containswas first described by [[Adam White (zoologist)|Adam White]] in 1846.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=White|first=Adam|date=1846|title=Insects of New Zealand.|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/6963011|journal=The Zoology of the followingVoyage of H.M.S. Erebus & Terror, Under the Command of Captain Sir James Clark Ross, R.N., F.R.S., During the Years 1839 to 1843. Vol. II. Reptiles, Fishes, Crustacea, Insects, Mollusca.|language=en|volume=2|pages=1–24|via=Biodiversity Heritage Library}}</ref> The type species for this genus is ''Scolopterus tetracanthus'' White, 1846 by original designation.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Alonso-Zarazaga|first1=Miguel A.|last2=Lyal|first2=Christopher H. C.|date=2002|title=Addenda and corrigenda to 'A World Catalogue of Families and Genera of Curculionoidea (Insecta: Coleoptera)'.|url=http://weevil.info/sites/weevil.info/files/Alonso-Zarazaga%20%20Lyal,%202002.pdf|journal=Zootaxa|volume=63|issue=1|pages=1–37|doi=10.11646/zoootaxa.63.1.1}}</ref> Species from this genus are found in [[New Zealand]].
This genus was first described by [[Adam White (zoologist)|Adam White]] in 1846.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=White|first=Adam|date=1846|title=Insects of New Zealand.|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/6963011|journal=The Zoology of the Voyage of H.M.S. Erebus & Terror, Under the Command of Captain Sir James Clark Ross, R.N., F.R.S., During the Years 1839 to 1843. Vol. II. Reptiles, Fishes, Crustacea, Insects, Mollusca.|language=en|volume=2|pages=1–24|via=Biodiversity Heritage Library}}</ref> The type species for this genus is ''Scolopterus tetracanthus'' White, 1846 by original designation.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Alonso-Zarazaga|first1=Miguel A.|last2=Lyal|first2=Christopher H. C.|date=2002|title=Addenda and corrigenda to 'A World Catalogue of Families and Genera of Curculionoidea (Insecta: Coleoptera)'.|url=http://weevil.info/sites/weevil.info/files/Alonso-Zarazaga%20%20Lyal,%202002.pdf|journal=Zootaxa|volume=63|issue=1|pages=1–37|doi=10.11646/zoootaxa.63.1.1}}</ref> Species from this genus are found in [[New Zealand]].
