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
1464-5262
5232123
Laparocerus sculptus
(Brulle´, 1839)
Otiorynchus sculptus
Brullé 1839
, p 71
.
Type locality.
La Palma
,
Canary Islands
.
Holotype
:
1♀
, 3-1841 [
sculptus
] [3.41] [
Type
] [
Museum Paris
/
Canaries
/
Webb
et
Berthelot
/ 3-41].
MNHN
(
Coll. Générale
),
Paris. Specimen
glued on card at present, but with two holes of pins on the elytra.
Remarks.
Brullé (1839)
did not mention the island of origin of the
holotype
, but
Wollaston (1864
, p 341) collected the species in Cubo de La Galga, and Cumbre above Buenavista, in the island of La Palma.
L. sculptus
is the type species of the subgenus
Machadotrox
Alonso- Zarazaga and Lyal, 1999 by original designation. This subgenus was established to fill the gap left by
Wollastonia
Uyttenboogaart, 1936
(non Heer, 1852, nec Horn, 1873) and its replacement name
Wollastonicerus
Uyttenboogaart, 1937
, both unavailable because of the absence of a type designation.