The type material of the species of Laparocerus Schönherr, 1834 (Coleoptera, Curculionidae, Entiminae)
Author
Machado, Antonio
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Journal of Natural History
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Laparocerus lanatus
(
Wollaston, 1854
)
Atlantis lanatus
Wollaston 1854
, p 372
, Table 7,
Figure 6
(habitus).
Type locality.
Curral das Romerias
, Island of
Madeira
.
Lectotype
:
1♀
,
August 1847
, Curral das Romerias, leg. Wollaston. NHM, London.
Paralectotypes
: 1„,
1♀
(
Figure 3A
) same data
; 2„„,
2♀♀
[1277],
Pico da Cruz
, 1851, leg.
Heer
(
ex litt.
).
NHM
,
London. All
males, slightly immature
.
1♀
, near
Mte Gorgulho
, leg.
Wollaston.
UMO
,
Oxford
.
Remarks.
According to the description (‘‘…rather abundant’’) it is highly probable that there are many other
syntypes
around. However, I have not made
paralectotypes
out of several very old specimens of
lanatus
preserved in the
DEI
(Coll. Schaufuss, Coll. Kraatz, Coll. Stierlin, etc.) as there is no clear evidence of being
syntypes
of Wollaston. Furthermore,
three specimens
placed as
L. lanatus
in the collection Oberthür-Wollaston in Paris, are misidentified; they are
L. clavatus
(
Wollaston, 1854
)
. In the Zoological Museum of the University of Amsterdam, there is
one female
(Wollaston mounting card!), erroneously identified as
L. lamellipes
, bearing the species-locality number [241] which in the London list corresponds to
Cercyon quisquilium
, and in the Oxford list to
Stenus guttula
.
Laparocerus lauripotens
(
Wollaston, 1854
)
Atlantis lauripotens
Wollaston 1854
, p 369
.
Type locality.
Curral das Romeiras
, Island of
Madeira
.
Lectotype
:
1♀
[575], Curral das Romeiras, autumn 1847 [
Atlantis
(
noctivagans
)
lauripotens
, Woll.
type]. NHM, London.
Paralectotype
: 1„ [575], immature and right antenna missing,
Figure 3. (A) Paralectotype of
Laparocerus lanatus
(
Wollaston, 1864
)
; (B) paralectotype of
Laparocerus aenescens
(
Wollaston, 1854
)
; (C) paralectotype of
Laparocerus waterhousei
(
Wollaston, 1854
)
.
same data 1847 [
Atlantis
(
noctivagans
)
lauripotens
, Woll.
] [The
Madeira
b./
T
.
V
. Wollaston/ Brit. Mus. 1855–7]. NHM, London.
Remarks.
Wollaston (1857
, p 114) synonymized this species with
A. noctivagans
Wollaston, 1854
, but later he recognized
A. lauripotens
as a valid species (
Wollaston 1871
, p 273). This rehabilitation was probably overlooked by
Schmitz (1898
, p 154) in his list of the Madeiran coleoptera.