Taxonomic remarks on some genera of Lixini Schoenherr, 1823 (Coleoptera: Curculionidae)
Author
Gültekin, Levent
text
Zootaxa
2010
2411
1
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journal article
10.5281/zenodo.293282
4f903bdb-024d-45e3-902d-1d2402eb0a5e
1175-5326
293282
Lixus aberratus
Boheman, 1835
Lixus aberratus
Boheman, 1835
: 85
Current status:
Lixus aberratus
Boheman, 1835
is a junior synonym of
L. rubicundus
Zoubkoff, 1833
.
Type
.
In the general collection at
SMNH
is a female pinned through the right elytron bearing the handwritten labels: “
Persia
”, “Falderm.”, and fitting the description with
type
locality as
Persia
. It is here designated as
lectotype
with “
Lectotypus
, Ƥ,
Lixus aberratus
Boh., Gültekin
des. 2006”, “
Lixus rubicundus
Zoubk., Gültekin
det. 2006”. In addition, under the name “
Aberratus
,
Schh., 111–116, Bhn.” there is a male of
Lixus rubicundus
Zoubkoff
bearing the labels: “
L: incarnates
, Falderm., Turcmania, Faldermann”. In the general collection of the same museum, there is another female of
Lixus rubicundus
, placed near the
lectotype
bearing the labels: “Sarepta”, “Becker”, “
Lixus atriplicis
”, “
Lixus aberratus
Schh
n. sp.
”. These latter two specimens appear to have no formal
type
status.
Remarks.
Capiomont (1875b)
first established
Lixus aberratus
Boheman
as a synonym of
L. flavescens
which in turn, is a junior synonym of
L. rubicundus
as designated by
Ter-Minassian (1967)
.