Lixus favens Boheman, 1835

Gültekin, Levent, 2010, Taxonomic remarks on some genera of Lixini Schoenherr, 1823 (Coleoptera: Curculionidae), Zootaxa 2411, pp. 1-21 : 13

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.293282
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6199837
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scientific name	Lixus favens Boheman, 1835
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Lixus favens Boheman, 1835 View in CoL

Lixus favens Boheman, 1835: 87 View in CoL

Current status: Lixus favens 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 “ Favens , Schh., 114–159, Bhn.” is a female (pinned through the right elytron, right fore claw segment missing) bearing the handwritten labels: “Ƥ”, “ Persia, Falderm.”, and fitting description with type locality as Persia. It is here designated as lectotype with “ Lectotypus, Ƥ, Lixus favens Boh., Gültekin des. 2006”, “ Lixus rubicundus Zoubk., Gültekin det. 2006”. A male pinned through the right elytron (elytra weakly separated) bears the handwritten labels: “3”, “ Persia, Falderm.”, fits description, and is here designated as paralectotype with “ Paralectotypus, 3, Lixus favens Boh., Gültekin des. 2006”, “ Lixus rubicundus Zoubk., Gültekin det. 2006”.

Remarks. Capiomont (1875b) first established Lixus favens Boheman as a synonym of L. flavescens which in turn, is a junior synonym of L. rubicundus as designated by Ter-Minassian (1967).