Sciaphobus (Sciaphobus) scitulus ( Germar, 1824 )

Borovec, Roman & Skuhrovec, Jiří, 2015, A review of Sciaphobus (Neosciaphobus) and descriptions of new species of Sciaphobus s. str. (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Entiminae), Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 55 (2), pp. 745-785 : 782

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scientific name	Sciaphobus (Sciaphobus) scitulus ( Germar, 1824 )
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Sciaphobus (Sciaphobus) scitulus ( Germar, 1824) View in CoL

Eusomus scitulus Germar, 1824: 459 View in CoL (original description).

Sciaphobus (Sciaphobus) scitulus: APFELBECK (1922) View in CoL : 18 (review); WINKLER (1932): 1470 (catalogue); DALLA TORRE et al. (1937): 161 (catalogue); DIECKMANN (1980): 253 (fauna); BOROVEC (2013): 385 (catalogue).

Type locality. ‘Illyria [= historical territorry in western Balkans corresponding roughly to present day Slovenia, Croatia and southwestern Austria]’.

Type material examined. LECTOTYPE (present designation): ♀ (3.81 mm long), ‘MLU Halle, WB Zoologie, S.-Nr., T.-Nr. [printed] 9/1/21 [handwritten] / Carnistis [handwritten] / LECTOTYPUS [printed] Sciaphobus scitulus Germ. [handwritten] Design. Dieckmann [printed] 1965 [handwritten]’ ( MLUH). PARALECTOTYPES: ‘MLU Halle, WB Zoologie, S.-Nr., T.-Nr. [printed] 9/1/21 [handwritten] / + [handwritten] / PARALECTOTYPUS [printed] Sciaphobus scitulus Germ. [handwritten] Design. Dieckmann [printed] 1965 [handwritten]’. All specimens were provided with the following additional labels: ‘ LECTOTYPUS [or PARALECTOTYPUS, respectively], Eusomus scitulus Germar, R. Borovec et J. Skuhrovec desig. 2014 [red, printed] / Sciaphobus scitulus (Germar) , R. Borovec et J. Skuhrovec det. 2014 [printed]’.

Remarks. GERMAR (1824) described the species generally from ‘Illyria’ and did not specify the number of specimens he had at disposal. There are six specimens pinned under the handwritten label ‘ scitulus Grm. Sr., Sllys. Germ. ’, in Germar’s collection (MLUH), which were labelled as lectotype and paralectotypes by Dieckmann. However, he never published the lectotype designation (L. Behne, pers. comm.). We designate one female as a lectotype to stabilize the nomenclature in the group. The whole type series is in accordance with the present-day concept of the species as used in the literature.