The type material of the species of Laparocerus Schönherr, 1834 (Coleoptera, Curculionidae, Entiminae)
Author
Machado, Antonio
text
Journal of Natural History
2006
2006-12-21
40
35 - 37
2001
2055
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00222930601046659
journal article
10.1080/00222930601046659
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Laparocerus inflatus
Wollaston, 1865
Laparocerus inflatus
Wollaston 1865
, p 321
, Appendix p 51.
Type locality.
Mountains of La Gomera
,
Canary Islands
.
Holotype
:
1♀
(light red card-line), mountains of La Gomera, leg. Messrs Crotch (
ex litt.
) [
L. inflatus
, W.] NHM, London.
Remarks.
Marseul (1872
, p 526) proposed for this species the invalid replacement name
Laparocerus tumens
.
L. inflatus
lives in the humid laurel-forest: El Cedro, Meriga, Agua de los Llanos, etc. The
type
serie was probably collected in Monte Forte (5El Cedro), the classical collecting-ground in the past.