In search of some type-specimens of Rhamphus [Clairville], 1798 (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) Author Caldara, Roberto Center of Alpine Entomology, University of Milan, Via Celoria 2, 20133 Milan, Italy. Author Toševski, Ivo Author Mendel, Howard 0000-0002-5035-6684 Department of Life Sciences (Entomology), Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW 7 5 BD, UK. h. mendel @ btinternet. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 5035 - 6684 h.mendel@btinternet.com Author Germann, Christoph Naturhistorisches Museum Basel, Augustinergasse 2, 4051, Basel, Switzerland. text Zootaxa 2022 2022-08-01 5169 4 371 380 journal article 112243 10.11646/zootaxa.5169.4.6 13661458-3a84-4de2-9f5f-0d320955f401 1175-5326 6952559 21750FB0-C5BC-472B-96F8-00850F1CF4C3 Rhamphus subaeneus Illiger, 1808 Rhamphus subaeneus Illiger, 1808: 324 This taxon was described from specimens collected in Portugal (“Lusitania”) without more detailed locality information. Regarding Illiger’s collection, what is reported above in respect of Hellwig’s collection at the ZMNB (see R. pulicarius ) is equally valid. In the case of Rhamphus subaeneus there is the following series (B. Jaeger, pers. comm.): Series no 54462: according to the catalogue of the historical collection ( Fig. 1A ) this series originally comprised seven specimens of “(aeneus Schh.) = subaeneus Boh. [sic]” from “Lusitania” and “Gall. merid.” In the collection now, B. Jaeger could locate only five specimens . The series in the collection, as labelled, includes specimens of “subaeneus” from “Lusit.”; we think that a part of the series is from Portugal , another part being from southern France . The labelling of individual specimens indicates that the first two specimens are from Portugal and are syntypes , and the remaining three specimens are from southern France . The two syntypes (sex not determined) are in quite poor condition (pinned with thick rusty pins), but still easily identifiable as the species currently considered as R. subaeneus . We designated the specimen in Fig. 2B and labelled “ subaeneus Ill …Lus.” as the lectotype of this species adding the following label “ LECTOTYPE Rhamphus subaeneus Illiger des. Caldara & Toševski 2021”. We indicated the other specimen labelled “54462/ subaeneus Schönh. Lusit 4” ( Fig. 2C ) as a paralectotype . As with R. pulicarius , there is additionally a slide including elytra and the abdomen of one specimen ( Fig. 1F ). This slide was prepared by E. M. Hering when he published about oxyacanthae and compared it with pulicarius and subaeneus ( Hering 1921 ) . According to the labelling of the slide the embedded body parts are from material from the historical collection, but their precise origin remains uncertain.