Naupactus peregrinus ( Buchanan, 1939 )

Río, M. Guadalupe Del & Lanteri, Analía A., 2018, New synonymies, new combinations and lectotype designations for weevils in the tribe Naupactini (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Entiminae), Zootaxa 4500 (3), pp. 329-340 : 336

Naupactus peregrinus ( Buchanan, 1939)

Pantomorus (Graphognathus) peregrinus Buchanan, 1939: 14 . Type material: holotype female; USA, Mississippi, Gulfport, 3 -

IX-1937, Gladney and Padget; USNM, Washington DC. Length: 8.5 mm. Graphognathus peregrinus: Buchanan, 1947: 19 ; Warner 1975: 856; O’Brien & Wibmer 1982: 29; Wibmer & O’Brien 1986:

63. Naupactus peregrinus: Lanteri & Marvaldi, 1995: 222 . Naupactus brevicrinitus Hustache, 1947: 103 . Type material: holotype female; Argentina, Chaco de Santiago del Estero, Río

Salado; MNHN, col. Hustache. Length: 8 mm. New synonymy.

Geographic distribution: Argentina (Chaco, Entre Ríos, Misiones, Santa Fe and Santiago del Estero), Southern Brazil (Rio Grande do Sul), Paraguay (Central) and Uruguay (Paysandú); introduced in the USA and the Açores Is. ( Portugal) ( Alonso-Zarazaga et al., 2017).

Remarks: Naupactus brevicrinitus was described based on a single specimen from Argentina, Santiago del Estero province, and N. peregrinus was based on material from the USA, where the species was introduced from South America. There are paratypes of N. peregrinus in the USNM, MLP and MACN (see Morrone & Loiácono, 1992 and Bachmann & Lanteri, 2013).

The closely related species N. minor ( Buchanan, 1942) , was also described based on material from the USA, and has a junior synonym, N. breviscapus Hustache, 1947 , from Argentina (Buenos Aires and Corrientes provinces) and Uruguay (Montevideo).