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

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scientific name

Lixus pallipes Zumpt, 1938
status

 

Lixus pallipes Zumpt, 1938

Lixus pallipes Zumpt, 1938: 12

Current status: Lixus pallipes Zumpt, 1938 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