Lixus convexicollis Petri, 1904

Gültekin, Levent, 2010, Taxonomic remarks on some genera of Lixini Schoenherr, 1823 (Coleoptera: Curculionidae), Zootaxa 2411, pp. 1-21 : 16-17

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scientific name	Lixus convexicollis Petri, 1904
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Lixus convexicollis Petri, 1904 View in CoL

Lixus convexicollis Petri, 1904: 67 View in CoL

Current status: Lixus convexicollis Petri, 1904 View in CoL is a junior synonym of L. elegantulus Boheman, 1842 View in CoL .

Type. In Reitter’s collection at HNHM, is a female (pinned through the right elytron which was cracked toward base of elytral humeri, elytra separated) bearing the handwritten labels: “Akbes”, “ Syria, Akbes”, “ Lixus convexicollis n. sp. Petri”, “ Holotypus, 1904, Lixus convexicollis Petri ” red brimmed museum label, and fitting the description with type locality as Akbes, Caucasus, Araxes, and is here designated as lectotype with “ Lectotypus, Ƥ, Lixus convexicollis Petri., Gültekin des. 2008”, “ Lixus elegantulus Boh., Gültekin det. 2008”.

Remarks. This is the only specimen in Reitter’s collection fitting the original description of the species. As seen below under L. amplirostris , this is the opposite sex of the type of L. amplirostris , which is a female. They share the same locality of “Akbes” in Turkey. Petri (1904a) described the gender difference as different species. Designation of a new synonymy is necessary: Lixus elegantulus Boheman, 1842 [= Lixus convexicollis Petri, 1904 syn. n.].

References

Boheman, C. H. (1842) In Schoenherr C. J. [1842]. Genera et species curculionidum, cum synonymia hujus familiae. Species novae aut hactenus minus cognitae, descriptionibus a Dom. L. Gyllenhal, C. H. Boheman, O. J. Fahraeus, et entomologis aliis illustratae. Tomus septimus. Pars prima. Supplementum continens. Roret, Paris; Fleischer, Lipsiae, [II] + 1 - 479 pp.

Petri, K. (1904 a) Beschreibung einiger neuer Lixus - arten. Wiener Entomologische Zeitung, 23 (3 - 4): 65 - 77.