Lixus nordmanni Hochhuth, 1847

Gültekin, Levent, 2010, Taxonomic remarks on some genera of Lixini Schoenherr, 1823 (Coleoptera: Curculionidae), Zootaxa 2411, pp. 1-21 : 14

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.293282
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6199849
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scientific name	Lixus nordmanni Hochhuth, 1847
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Lixus nordmanni Hochhuth, 1847 View in CoL

Lixus nordmanni Hochhuth, 1847: 529 View in CoL

Current status: Lixus nordmanni Hochhuth, 1847 View in CoL is a valid species.

Type. In Hochhuth’s collection in DEI, is a female (pinned through the right elytron, right fore tarsus missing) bearing the handwritten labels: “Caucasus”, “ L. nordmanni Hochh., Hochh. ”, and fitting the description with type locality as Caucasus. It is here designated as lectotype with “ Lectotypus, Ƥ, Lixus nordmanni Hochh., L. Gültekin des. 2006”.

Remarks. This species is closely related to Lixus iridis Olivier , from which differs by a longer rostrum and rounded apex of the aedeagus.

References

Hochhuth, I. H. (1847) Enumeration der Russelkafer welche von Baron Maximilian von Chaudoir und von Baron A. v. Gotsch auf ihren Reisen im Kaukasus und in Transcaucasien im Jahre 1845 gesammelt werden; nebst Beschreibung der neuentdeckten Arten. Bulletin de la Societe Imperiale des Naturalistes de Moscou, 20 (2): 448 - 587.