The species of Larinus Dejean, 1821 (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) described by J. Desbrochers: lectotype designations and new synonymies
Author
Gültekin, Levent
Author
Perrin, Hélène
text
Zootaxa
2006
1350
55
68
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.273592
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273592
Larinus hierolosymae
Desbrochers, 1896
Larinus hierolosymae
Desbrochers, 1896
: 66
In the description, Desbrochers indicates “Long. 10 mill. (rostro excluso)” and a region, with a town “
Syrie
, Jẻrusalem” [in 1896, Jerusalem was a city of
Syria
, in
Ottoman Empire
]; the unique specimen is the
holotype
.
Type
. The female recognized as
holotype
bears the handwritten labels “Jerusalem”, “
hierosolymus
m., Fr. 5.96” and “
type
” and has been labelled “
Holotypus
Ψ,
Larinus hierosolymae
Desbr., Gültekin & Perrin
des. 2005” [on red paper]. It is pinned through the right elytron and complete.
Remarks. The mention “Fr. 5.96” is a reference to the description. The description is published with a mistake: the latin name for Jerusalem is
Hierosolyma
. The name
Larinus hierolosymae
printed in the publication, and also in the Coleopterorum Catalogus, is an “incorrect original spelling” (probably printer error). It is the reason why we propose here an
emendation: the species is named
Larinus hierosolymae
Desbrochers, 1896
(the handwritten label by Desbrochers uses the good root “
hierosolymus
”). The species belongs to the subgenus
Phyllonomeus
Gistel
, and is similar to
Larinus orientalis
Capiomont, 1874
, but differs thinner and more shining rostrum, with longitudinal indistinct stripes on 2nd–4th and 9th–10th elytral intervals and lateral margins of pronotum forming by greyish hairs.