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 amplirostris
Petri, 1904
Lixus amplirostris
Petri, 1904: 68
Current status:
Lixus amplirostris
Petri, 1904
is a junior synonym of
L. elegantulus
Boheman, 1842
.
Type
.
In Reitter’s collection at
HNHM
, is a male fitting the description with
type
locality as Akbes (pinned through the right elytron, right hind claw segment and left middle tarsus missing, remounted and aedeagus dissected) bearing the handwritten labels: “Akbes”, “[yellow square]”, “
Syria
, Akbes”, “
Lixus amplirostris
n. sp.
Petri”, “Monotypus, 1904,
Lixus amplirostris
Petri
, 3” red brimmed museum label, and “
Lixus elegantulus
Boh., Gültekin
det. 2008”. It is the
holotype
of
Lixus amplirostris
.
Remarks.
Examination of
type
material and dissection of aedeagus reveals that
Lixus amplirostris
is the same as
Lixus elegantulus
Boheman. Thus
the following new synonymy is proposed here:
Lixus elegantulus
Boheman, 1842
[=
Lixus amplirostris
Petri, 1904
syn. n.
].