A new species of the weevil genus Larinus Dejean from Turkey and Syria (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Lixinae)
Author
Gültekin, Levent
text
Zootaxa
2006
1248
21
26
journal article
50606
10.5281/zenodo.172968
ebbdc94e-469a-497a-b3f9-1114186f5877
11755326
172968
Larinus lejeunei
Capiomont, 1874
(
Figs. 5–6
)
Larinus lejeunei
Capiomont, 1874
: 321
Type
The male designated as
lectotype
bears the handwritten labels “
Lejeunei
,
Algeria
” [on blue paper] and “Cap.” and has been labelled “
Lectotypus
ɗ,
Larinus lejeunei
Capiomont, L. Gültekin
des., 2005” [handwritten on red paper]. The
lectotype
is pinned through the right elytron, and both middle tarsi are broken off beyond the basal segment.
Remarks
Body brownish, elytra together distinctly wider than prothorax (
Fig. 5
), bifurcate whitish scales forming a longitudinal stripe on 2nd–4th intervals and scattered sparcely on elytra; lateral margin of prothorax and elytra with similar stripes; pronotal disc with a median and two lateral whitish stripes, the former confined to apical half and the latter extending from base to beyond middle. Rostrum cylindrical, straight; in female twice as long as pronotum and narrowed after antennal insertion, again widened in apex. Aedeagus in dorsal view narrowing from base to apex, then constricted before apex, narrowing apically (
Fig. 6
).