Sericopholus murinus

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 : 148-149

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scientific name	Sericopholus murinus
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Sericopholus murinus View in CoL (Desbrochers des Loges, 1896), comb. nov.

Chiloneus murinus Desbrochers des Loges, 1896: 41.

Alophinus triangulifer Desbrochers View in CoL des Loges, 1903: 181, syn. nov. Type locality: Tunisie, Bir-Chenchou. Alophinus triangulifer v. subuniformis Pic, 1904a: 11 View in CoL . Type locality: Tunisie, Gabès. Chiloneus murinus: Winkler, 1932: 1469 View in CoL ; Dalla Torre et al., 1937: 178; Borovec, 2013b: 380. Alophinus triangulifer: Winkler, 1932: 1471 View in CoL .

Sericopholus triangulifer: Dalla Torre et al., 1937: 169 View in CoL ; Borovec, 2013b: 385.

Type locality. Tunisie (Desbrochers des Loges, 1896).

Type material examined. Chiloneus murinus . Lectotype (here designated): 1 spec. ( MNHN, Desbrochers coll.), ‘ murinus m. / Fr. 96 [hw] // type [hw] // Ex Museo / Desbrochers / 1914 [p] // LECTOTYPUS / Chiloneus / murinus Desbr., 1896 / Borovec & Perrin desig. 2015 [p, red] // Sericopholus / murinus (Dsbr.) / R. Borovec det. 2015 [p]’.

‘ Alophinus triangulifer . Lectotype (here designed): 1 spec. ( MNHN, Pic coll.), ‘Bir Chenchou [hw] / Ch. Alluaud 1899 // n°9 // type [hw, yellow] // Alophinus / triangulifer / n. g. m [hw] // TYPE [p, red] // Museum Paris / Coll. M. Pic [p] // LECTOTYPUS / Alophinus / triangulifer Desbr., 1903 / H. Perrin desig. 2015 // Sericopholus / murinus (Desbr.) / R. Borovec det. 2015ʼ. Paralectotypes: 2 spec. ( MNHN, 1 spec. coll. Pic, the same data as lectotype; 1 spec. coll. Desbrochers, without ‘Ch. Alluaud 1899ʼ, corresponding to “Pic m’a abandonné un exemplaire”, written by Desbrochers in the description).

Alophinus triangulifer v. subuniformis . Lectotype (here designed): 1 spec. ( MNHN, Pic coll.), ‘ Tunisie / Gabès / Alluaud 189. [p] // 22 [hw] // 4 [hw] // genre? / près Sciaphilus / XX [hw] // type [hw, yellow] // triangulifer ?? / subuniformis Pic // Museum Paris / Coll. M. Pic [p] // LECTOTYPUS / Alophinus triangulifer / v. subuniformis Pic, 1904 / H. Perrin desig. 2015 // Sericopholus / murinus (Desbr.) / R. Borovec det. 2015ʼ.

Additional material examined. 1 spec., Tunisia, Sfax ( MNHN).

Remarks. The lectotype of Chiloneus murinus is 4.88 mm long and it clearly belongs to the genus Sericopholus Desbrochers des Loges, 1893. It differs from Chiloneus by the absence of posteriorly carinate frontoepistomal area and from Myochlamys by well rounded, laterally prominent humeri and very small, glabrous scutellum. It is conspecific in the genus Sericopholus with S. triangulifer (Desbrochers des Loges, 1903), thus S. triangulifer is a subjective junior synonymy of S. murinus , syn. nov.