Taxonomic remarks on some genera of Lixini Schoenherr, 1823 (Coleoptera: Curculionidae)
Author
Gültekin, Levent
text
Zootaxa
2010
2411
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journal article
10.5281/zenodo.293282
4f903bdb-024d-45e3-902d-1d2402eb0a5e
1175-5326
293282
Lixus zoubkoffi
Boheman, 1835
Lixus Zoubkoffi
Boheman, 1835
: 86
Current status:
Lixus zoubkoffi
Boheman, 1835
is a junior synonym of
L. rubicundus
Zoubkoff, 1833
.
Type
.
In Schoenherr’s collection at
SMNH
, under the name “
Zoubkoffi
,
Schh., 113–158, Bhn.” is a male formerly pinned by a large pin through the right elytron (pin was changed with a thinner one, thus the hole is wider than the pin; elytra separated, right funicle beyond segment 4, right middle leg, left middle tarsus and right fore claws missing) bearing the handwritten labels: “3”, “Lit: orientale Maris, Caspici, Bartels”, and fitting the description with
type
locality as Caspii. It is here designated as
lectotype
with “
Lectotypus
, 3,
Lixus zoubkoffi
Boh., Gültekin
des. 2006”, “
Lixus rubicundus
Zoubk., Gültekin
det. 2006”. A female pinned through the right elytron (right fore tibia and tarsus missing) bearing the handwritten labels: “Ƥ”, “
L. rubicundus
Zoubkoff, Lit
: orientale, Maris, Caspici, Bartels”, fits description, and is here designated as
paralectotype
with “
Paralectotypus
, Ƥ,
Lixus zoubkoffi
Boh., Gültekin
des. 2006”, “
Lixus rubicundus
Zoubk., Gültekin
det. 2006”.
Remarks.
Csiki (1934)
first established
Lixus zoubkoffi
as a synonym of
L. rubicundus
.