Taxonomic remarks on some genera of Lixini Schoenherr, 1823 (Coleoptera: Curculionidae)
Author
Gültekin, Levent
text
Zootaxa
2010
2411
1
21
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.293282
4f903bdb-024d-45e3-902d-1d2402eb0a5e
1175-5326
293282
Lixus virens
Boheman, 1835
Lixus virens
Boheman, 1835
: 85
Current status:
Lixus virens
Boheman, 1835
is a junior synonym of
L. rubicundus
Zoubkoff, 1833
.
Type
.
In Schoenherr’s collection at
SMNH
, under the name “
Virens
,
Bartels, 112–157, Bhn.” is a male pinned through the right elytron (both funicles missing beyond segment 1) bearing the handwritten labels: “88”, “
L:
virens
Bart., Lit. orientale, Mer. Caspici, Bartels”, and fitting the description with
type
locality as Caspii. It is here designated as
lectotype
with “
Lectotypus
, 3,
Lixus virens
Boh., Gültekin
des. 2006”, “
Lixus rubicundus
Zoubk., Gültekin
det. 2006”.
Remarks.
Capiomont (1875b)
first established
Lixus virens
Boheman
as a synonym of
L. flavescens
which in turn, is a junior synonym of
L. rubicundus
as designated by
Ter-Minassian (1967)
.