Larinus lejeunei Capiomont, 1874

Gültekin, Levent, 2006, A new species of the weevil genus Larinus Dejean from Turkey and Syria (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Lixinae), Zootaxa 1248, pp. 21-26 : 25

Larinus lejeunei Capiomont, 1874

( Figs. 5–6 )

Larinus lejeunei Capiomont, 1874: 321

Type

The male designated as lectotype bears the handwritten labels “ Lejeunei , Algeria ” [on blue paper] and “Cap.” and has been labelled “ Lectotypus ɗ, Larinus lejeunei Capiomont, L. Gültekin des., 2005” [handwritten on red paper]. The lectotype is pinned through the right elytron, and both middle tarsi are broken off beyond the basal segment.

Remarks

Body brownish, elytra together distinctly wider than prothorax ( Fig. 5 ), bifurcate whitish scales forming a longitudinal stripe on 2nd–4th intervals and scattered sparcely on elytra; lateral margin of prothorax and elytra with similar stripes; pronotal disc with a median and two lateral whitish stripes, the former confined to apical half and the latter extending from base to beyond middle. Rostrum cylindrical, straight; in female twice as long as pronotum and narrowed after antennal insertion, again widened in apex. Aedeagus in dorsal view narrowing from base to apex, then constricted before apex, narrowing apically ( Fig. 6 ).

Figures

FIGURES 1 – 7. Larinus perrinae Gültekin, sp. n. (1, 2, 4; holotype; 3; paratype), Larinus lejeunei Capiomont (5 – 6) and Larinus remissus Faust (7): 1, body outline; 2, rostrum (male); 3, rostrum (female); 4, aedeagus; 5, body outline (female, from Algeria, compared with type); 6, aedeagus; 7, aedeagus (from Nahcivan, compared with type). Scale bar: 1 mm.