Lixus pallipes Zumpt, 1938

Gültekin, Levent, 2010, Taxonomic remarks on some genera of Lixini Schoenherr, 1823 (Coleoptera: Curculionidae), Zootaxa 2411, pp. 1-21 : 7

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.293282

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6199803

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Lixus pallipes Zumpt, 1938
status

 

Lixus pallipes Zumpt, 1938 View in CoL

Lixus pallipes Zumpt, 1938: 12 View in CoL

Current status: Lixus pallipes Zumpt, 1938 View in CoL is a valid species.

Type. In Frey’s collection at NMB is a female holotype in good shape mounted on a card bearing labels: “Bagdad, Irak, IV-36, Frey”, “Ƥ” printed, “ Lixus pallipes m., F. Zumpt det. 37” partly printed. According to the original description the type locality is “Bagdad”.

Remarks. Lixus pallipes Zumpt, 1938 is closely related to Lixus subulatus Faust , but differs from the latter by divergent claws at the base, shorter and not strongly curved rostrum with reddish color apicad of antennal insertion.

Zumpt, F. (1938) Eine Curculioniden-Ausbeute von Mesopotamien, Palastina, Syrien und Aegypten (Coleot.) (Curculioniden-Studien XXIX). Mitteilungen der Munchner Entomologischen Gesellshaft, 28 (1): 7 - 16.

NMB

Naturhistorishes Museum

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Curculionidae

Genus

Lixus