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 villosicollis
Desbrochers, 1892
Larinus villosicollis
Desbrochers, 1892b
: 91
In the description, Desbrochers indicates “Ψ. Long. 7 (
rostro excluso
); lat. 4 mill.” and “J’ai rapportẻ cette espẻce des environs d’Alger” [which means “I brought back this species from the neighbourhood of
Alger
”].
Type
. The female
holotype
bears the handwritten labels “HusseinDey, Desbrochers, 1889”, “
westringi
”, “
type
” and “
villosicollis
” and has been labelled “
Holotypus
Ψ,
Larinus villosicollis
Desbr., Gültekin & Perrin
des. 2005” [on red paper]. The specimen is glued on a card and in good state.
Remarks. The locality “HusseinDey” fits with the description (“aux environs d’Alger”): it is at about
6 km
southeast of
Alger
.
Larinus villosicollis
Desbrochers
belongs to the subgenus
Phyllonomeus
Gistel
, being closely related to
Larinus westringii
Capiomont, 1874
and
Larinus filiformis
Petri, 1907
. It differs from both of these by short rostrum, the whitish hairs on the elytra forming two indistinct longitudinal stripes, and clothed with dense semierect greyish hairs along the lateral margins of pronotum.