ON SEVEN OVERLOOKED CURCULIONOIDEA FROM NORTHERN ITALY (Coleoptera)

• Main Authors: Roberto Caldara, Enzo Colonnelli
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: PAGEPress Publications 2012-04-01
• Series: Fragmenta entomologica
• Online Access: http://www.fragmentaentomol.org/index.php/fragmenta/article/view/35
• ISSN: 0429-288X; 2284-4880

Seven Curculionoidea described from Lombardy (northern Italy) by Virginio Betta in 1857 and overlooked by subsequent authors are here treated. Since the Betta collection where their types are supposed to have been preserved was never traced, neotypes of all of them are designated with the purpose of clarifying their taxonomic status. Revised combinations are: <em>Pseudeuparius pictus</em> (Betta, 1857) comb. rev. from Tropideres Schoenherr, 1823; <em>Pachytychius</em> <em>aericollis</em> (Betta, 1857) comb. rev. from Smicronyx Schoenherr, 1843; <em>Mecinus</em> <em>vittatus</em> (Betta, 1857) comb. rev. from Gymnetron Schoenherr, 1825; <em>Mecinus</em> <em>areolatus</em> (Betta, 1857) comb. rev. from Gymnetron Schoenherr; <em>Mecinus flavipes</em> (Betta, 1857) comb. rev. from Gymnetron Schoenherr. The following new synonymies are established: <em>Pseudeuparius centromaculatus</em> (Gyllenhal, 1833) [=<em> P. pictus</em> (Betta, 1857) syn. n.]; <em>Pachytychius</em> <em>sparsutus</em> (Olivier, 1807) [= <em>P. aericollis</em> (Betta, 1857) syn. n.]; <em>Smicronyx coecus</em> (Reich, 1797) [= <em>S. minusculus</em> (Betta, 1857) syn. n.]; <em>Mecinus</em> <em>labilis</em> (Herbst, 1795) [= <em>M</em>. <em>vittatus</em> (Betta, 1857) syn. n.]; <em>Mecinus</em> <em>pascuorum</em> (Gyllenhal, 1813) [= <em>M. areolatus</em> (Betta, 1857) syn. n.]; <em>Mecinus</em> <em>latiusculus</em> (Jacquelin du Val, 1855) [= <em>M. flavipes</em> (Betta, 1857) syn. n.]; <em>Mecinus</em> <em>circulatus</em> (Marsham, 1802) [= <em>M. sericatus</em> Betta, 1857 syn. n.].