Chiloneus veneriatus Normand, 1937

Borovec, Roman & Perrin, Hélène, 2016, On the systematic position of some species of Chiloneus, Desbrochersella and Sciaphilus, with description of two new species and lectotype selection (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Entiminae), Zootaxa 4109 (2), pp. 131-152 : 146

Chiloneus veneriatus Normand, 1937

Chiloneus veneriatus Normand, 1937: 244 .

Chiloneus veneriatus: Dalla Torre et al., 1937: 323 ; Borovec, 2013b: 380.

Type locality. Tunisie, Le Kef ( Normand, 1937).

Type material examined. Lectotype (here designated): 1 spec. ( MNHN, Démoflys coll. in Tempère coll.), ‘T. [ Tunisia] Le Kef / 2-1934 / Dr. Normand [p] // Chiloneus / veneriatus / Norm. [hw] // LECTOTYPUS / Chiloneus / veneriatus Normand, 1937 / Borovec & Perrin desig. 2015 [p, red] // Chiloneus / veneriatus Norm. / R. Borovec det. 2015 [hw/p]’. Paralectotypes: the same data as lectotype (without date), but ‘PARALECTOTYPUS’; 1 spec. ( MNHN, Démoflys coll. in Tempère coll.), 4 spec. ( MNHN, Peyerimhoff coll.), the first one with ‘ Chiloneus / veneriatus / Norm. 1937 / co-type [hw]ʼ, the 2nd and 3rd on the same pin, the 4th one with ‘Sinapis / arvensis L [hw, red ink]ʼ.

Remarks. The two specimens (lectotype and paralectotype in the Démoflys coll.) labelled with ‘ Chiloneus veneriatus Norm. ’, written probably by handwritting of Démoflys, who had a lot of material from Normand and had contact with him, because he worked also in Tunisia; for the 4 spec. of Peyerimhoff coll., the label of the first one with ‘ Chiloneus / veneriatus / Norm. 1937 / co-type [hw]ʼ is probably written by Peyerimhoff. Chiloneus veneriatus is very similar to C. submaculatus in the very short raised elytral setae. It differs from it in smaller and more slender body and mainly in the frontoepistomal area, which is clearly carinate only in the lateral parts and in posterior part the carina is slightly shallowly deepened.