Laparocerus piceus Boheman 1834
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Laparocerus piceus Boheman in Schönherr 1834, p 531.
Type locality. Island of Madeira.
Holotype: 1♀ much rubbed [Lusitania / Falderman]. NR (Coll. Schönherr), Stockholm.
Remarks. The species was described by Boheman based on a single female labelled as from Lusitania (5 Portugal); however, Gyllenhall is often cited as author. I have seen specimens of L. azoricus Drouet labelled as L. piceus in several collections (Coll. Stierlin, Osella, Poncy, etc.). Furthermore, Marseul (1872, p 548) placed the species with a question-mark as synonym of L. vespertinus (Wollaston, 1854) and it is recorded identically in Winkler (1932, p 1448), even though L. piceus Boheman, 1834 would have priority over L. vespertinus (Wollaston, 1854), as posteriorly recognized by Schmitz (1898, p 154) in his list of Madeiran coleoptera. It has been registered in several catalogues (Jacquelin du Val 1855; Lacordaire 1863; Lona 1938, etc.) as from Portugal, and only Lundblad (1958, p 485) assumes that the locality label ‘‘Lusitania’’ must be an error as in the case of L. morio, equally described by Boheman on a specimen provided by Falderman. Consequently, I assume the island of Madeira as the locality where the type really originated. The holotype of L. piceus is kept in Stockholm. It is a rubbed female specimen that resembles L. noctivagans (Wollaston, 1854), but could equally be assigned to L. lauripotens (Wollaston, 1854). Females of this group of Laparocerus (L. vespertinus, included) are not always easy to separate. Therefore I propose to consider L. piceus, a nomen dubium.
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- Journal article: 10.1080/00222930601046659 (DOI)
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Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Boheman
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Coleoptera
- Family
- Curculionidae
- Genus
- Laparocerus
- Species
- piceus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Laparocerus piceus Boheman, 1834 sec. Machado, 2006
References
- Schonherr CJ. 1834. Genera et species Curculionidum, cum synonymia hujus familiae. Species novae aut hactenus minus cognitae, descriptionibus a Dom. Leonardo Gyllenhal, C. H. Boheman, et entomologis aliis illustratae. Volume 3 (2). Paris: Roret. p 329 - 669.
- Marseul SA. 1872. Monographie des Otiorhynchides d'apres les travaux de MM. les docteurs Seidlitz & Stierlin. L'Abeille, Paris (Deuxieme Serie) 5: 449 - 557.
- Wollaston TV. 1854. Insecta Maderensia; being an account of the insects of the islands of the Madeiran group. London: Taylor & Francis. 677 p, 13 plates.
- Winkler A, editors. 1932. Catalogus Coleopterorum regionis palaearcticae. Pars 12: 1393 - 1520. Vienna: Albert Winkler. 1698 p.
- Schmitz E. 1898. Os coleopteros da Madeira. Annaes de Sciencias Naturaes Publicados por Augusto Nobre 5: 153 - 155.
- Jacquelin du Val C. 1855. Genera des coleopteres d'Europe comprenant leur classification en famille naturelle, la description de tous les genres, des tableaux dichotomiques destines a faciliter l'etude, le catalogue de toutes les especes, de nombreux dessins au trait de caracteres. Volume 4. Paris: Deyrolle fils.
- Lacordaire Th. 1863. Histoire naturelle des Insectes. Genera des Coleopteres. T. VI, Curculionides. Paris: Librairie Encyclopedique de Roret. 594 p.
- Lona C. 1938. Curculionidae: Otiorhynchinae III. Pars 162. In: Junk W, Schenkling S, editors. Coleopterorum Catalogus. The Hague: Dr W. Junk. p 413 - 600.
- Lundblad O. 1958. Die Arthropodenfauna von Madeira nach den Ergebnissen der Reise von Prof. Dr. O. Lundblad Juli - August 1935. XXXV. Die Kaferfauna der Insel Madeira. Arkiv for Zoologi, Stockholm 11: 461 - 524.