Otiorhynchus malyi ( Obenberger, 1914 ) Colonnelli, 2011

Colonnelli, Enzo, 2011, Notes on the taxonomy of Urometopus with description of a new species from northern Turkey (Coleoptera: Curculionidae), Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 51 (2), pp. 675-686 : 682

Otiorhynchus malyi ( Obenberger, 1914) , comb. nov.

Urometopus malyi Obenberger, 1914: 141 .

Taxonomy. Another species, Urometopus malyi Obenberger, 1914 from Uzbekistan, included in this genus also by LONA (1938) was overlooked by BOROVEC (2006). Its inaccurate description ( OBENBERGER 1914: 141) does not allow to assign this weevil to any of the genera of Omiini keyed by BOROVEC (2006). The ligulate aedeagus depicted by OBENBERGER (1914: 142) is completely dissimilar from that of members of Omias Germar, 1817 ; only some species of this genus in Omiini have dark integument and vestiture somewhat like those described by OBENBERGER (1914). According to Josef Jelínek (pers. comm.), the type of U. malyi was missing in the Obenberger collection housed in the NMPC, but Borovec (pers. comm.) was able to find it elsewhere in the collection of the National Museum, Prague, two males; the first labeled: ‘ Jangi Kuduk Buchara c. Malý legit (printed) / Asia centr. Coll. Obenberger (printed) / Urometopus Malýi m. Typus (handwritten) Det. Obenberger (printed)’, and the second: ‘Malýi m. Typus (handwritten) Det. Obenberger (printed)’. Below one of the specimens there is an additional label ‘ Otiorhynchus ? christophi Fst. / Ing. J. Fremuth det. 1998’; therefore, according to the above notes by Borovec, Urometopus malyi should be moved to Otiorhynchus Germar, 1822 as Otiorhynchus malyi ( Obenberger, 1914) , comb. nov. Its systematic position will be discussed in a forthcoming paper (R. Borovec, pers. comm).