Lixus favens Boheman, 1835

Gültekin, Levent, 2010, Taxonomic remarks on some genera of Lixini Schoenherr, 1823 (Coleoptera: Curculionidae), Zootaxa 2411, pp. 1-21 : 13

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scientific name	Lixus favens Boheman, 1835
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Lixus favens Boheman, 1835 View in CoL

Lixus favens Boheman, 1835: 87 View in CoL

Current status: Lixus favens Boheman, 1835 View in CoL is a junior synonym of L. rubicundus Zoubkoff, 1833 View in CoL .

Type. In Schoenherr’s collection at SMNH, under the name “ Favens , Schh., 114–159, Bhn.” is a female (pinned through the right elytron, right fore claw segment missing) bearing the handwritten labels: “Ƥ”, “ Persia, Falderm.”, and fitting description with type locality as Persia. It is here designated as lectotype with “ Lectotypus, Ƥ, Lixus favens Boh., Gültekin des. 2006”, “ Lixus rubicundus Zoubk., Gültekin det. 2006”. A male pinned through the right elytron (elytra weakly separated) bears the handwritten labels: “3”, “ Persia, Falderm.”, fits description, and is here designated as paralectotype with “ Paralectotypus, 3, Lixus favens Boh., Gültekin des. 2006”, “ Lixus rubicundus Zoubk., Gültekin det. 2006”.

Remarks. Capiomont (1875b) first established Lixus favens Boheman as a synonym of L. flavescens which in turn, is a junior synonym of L. rubicundus as designated by Ter-Minassian (1967).

References

Boheman, C. H. (1835) In Schoenherr C. J. [1835]. Genera et species curculionidum, cum synonymia hujus familiae. Species novae aut hactenus minus cognitae, descriptionibus a Dom. Leonardo Gyllenhal, C. H. Boheman, et entomologis aliis illustratae. Tomus tertius. Pars prima. Roret, Paris; Fleischer, Lipsiae, pp. [6] + 1 - 505.

Capiomont, G. (1875 b) 3 e memoire. Monographie des Lixus. 3 e partie. Mise en ordre d'apres les manuscrits de l'auteur par M. C. - E. Leprieur. Annales de la Societe entomologique de France, (5) 5 (3): 257 - 288.

Ter-Minassian, M. E. (1967) Zhuki-dolgonosiki podsemejstva Cleoninae fauny SSSR. Tsvetozhily i stebleedy (triba Lixini). Nauka, Leningrad, 140 + 1 p. (English translation: Weevils of the Subfamily Cleoninae in the Fauna of the USSR. Tribe Lixini. USDA Agricultural Research Service, Washington, D. C. by Amerind Publishing Co. Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi, 1978. 166 pp.).