The type material of the species of Laparocerus Schönherr, 1834 (Coleoptera, Curculionidae, Entiminae)
Author
Machado, Antonio
text
Journal of Natural History
2006
2006-12-21
40
35 - 37
2001
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00222930601046659
journal article
10.1080/00222930601046659
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Laparocerus tibialis
(
Wollaston, 1864
)
Atlantis tibialis
Wollaston 1864
, p 338
.
Type locality.
Puerto de la Cruz
, Tenerife,
Canary Islands
.
Lectotype
: 1„,
Tenerife
,
Puerto of Orotava
(5
Puerto de la Cruz
), leg.
Wollaston
(
ex litt
). [
Type
] [
tibialis
, Woll.
].
MNH
, London.
Paralectotypes
: 1„,
1♀
(
one immature
),
Tenerife
, same locality; 1 ex (green card-line),
La Palma
,
supra
Santa Cruz
, leg.
Wollaston
(
ex litt.
).
MNH
, London.
Remarks.
Having recognized that
Lichenophagus incomptus
Wollaston, 1865
is a good
Laparocerus
species
, the reference of
L. tibialis
as the valid name of the
type
species of the subgenus
Amyntas
Wollaston, 1864
(see
Alonso-Zarazaga and Lyal 1999
) is no more suitable.