Curculionoidea (weevils) of New Caledonia and Vanuatu: Basal families and some Curculionidae
Author
Kuschel, Guillermo
John T. Huber
text
Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle
2008
197
99
250
journal article
978-2-85653-605-6
1243-4442
Orthorhinus laetus
Saunders & Jekel
Orthorhinus laetus
Saunders & Jekel, 1855: 297
.
DISTRIBUTION. — This species is from Lord Howe I., not from ‘Novae-Hebrides’ where it was reported from originally.
TYPE MATERIAL
. —
Three
syntypes
present.
Lectotype
male, 14.0 x
5.2 mm
, Lord Howe,
Orthorhinus laetus
Saund.& Jek, NHML.
Paralectotypes
:
2 females
,
NHML
.
REMARKS. — The measurements of male and female are reversed in the original paper:
14 mm
long is for the male
lectotype
, and
18 mm
long is for the
two female
paralectotypes
.