Lixus zoubkoffi Boheman, 1835

Gültekin, Levent, 2010, Taxonomic remarks on some genera of Lixini Schoenherr, 1823 (Coleoptera: Curculionidae), Zootaxa 2411, pp. 1-21 : 12

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.293282
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6199835
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scientific name	Lixus zoubkoffi Boheman, 1835
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Lixus zoubkoffi Boheman, 1835 View in CoL

Lixus Zoubkoffi Boheman, 1835: 86 View in CoL

Current status: Lixus zoubkoffi 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 “ Zoubkoffi , Schh., 113–158, Bhn.” is a male formerly pinned by a large pin through the right elytron (pin was changed with a thinner one, thus the hole is wider than the pin; elytra separated, right funicle beyond segment 4, right middle leg, left middle tarsus and right fore claws missing) bearing the handwritten labels: “3”, “Lit: orientale Maris, Caspici, Bartels”, and fitting the description with type locality as Caspii. It is here designated as lectotype with “ Lectotypus, 3, Lixus zoubkoffi Boh., Gültekin des. 2006”, “ Lixus rubicundus Zoubk., Gültekin det. 2006”. A female pinned through the right elytron (right fore tibia and tarsus missing) bearing the handwritten labels: “Ƥ”, “ L. rubicundus Zoubkoff, Lit : orientale, Maris, Caspici, Bartels”, fits description, and is here designated as paralectotype with “ Paralectotypus, Ƥ, Lixus zoubkoffi Boh., Gültekin des. 2006”, “ Lixus rubicundus Zoubk., Gültekin det. 2006”.

Remarks. Csiki (1934) first established Lixus zoubkoffi as a synonym of L. rubicundus .