Aclees hirayamai Kȏno, 1933: 183

Meregalli, Massimo, Boriani, Marco, Bollino, Maurizio & Hsu, Chen-Fu, 2020, Review of the species of Aclees described by Kȏno (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Molytinae), Zootaxa 4768 (1), pp. 146-150 : 150

Aclees hirayamai Kȏno, 1933: 183 .

Only the two syntypes are conserved in coll. Kȏno ( Fig. 2 ).

Lectotype (here designated). 1. (pr) URAI / Formosa / (VI-8—10. -26) / Col. M. Kato; 2. Aclees / hirayamai / ♂ Kȏno (hw) / Type (pr); 3. (pr) (white label with red border on right) SYNTYPE / The label attached by / OHARA and HIRONAGA / 2006; 4. (pr) 0000000999 / Sys. Ent. / Hokkaido Univ. / Japan [SEHU]; 5. (red label, pr) Aclees hirayamai / Kȏno, 1933 / LECTOTYPUS / 2020 Meregalli & Boriani des.

Paralectotype. 1. LOO-CHOO (pr) / IRIOMOTE (pr) / VI-1932 (hw) / S. HIRAYAMA (pr); 3. (pr) (white label with red border on right) SYNTYPE / The label attached by / OHARA and HIRONAGA / 2006; 4. (pr) 0000001000 / Sys. Ent. / Hokkaido Univ. / Japan [SEHU]; X. (red label, pr) Aclees hirayamai / Kȏno, 1933 / PARALECTOTYPUS / 2020 Meregalli & Boriani vid.

Distribution. Taiwan, type locality ( Kȏno 1933); China, Japan ( Morimoto 1982).

Kȏno (1942) described a further species of Aclees , A. saipanensis Kȏno, 1942 , from the Island of Saipan. This was based on a single female holotype. We illustrate it here ( Fig. 3 ).

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FIGURE 2. Aclees hirayamai Kôno, 1933. Lectotype ♂ (A–I), Paralectotype ♀(J–K). Body (A); Rostrum, lateral view (B), dorsal view (C); Antenna (E); Pronotum (F); Penis, dorsal view (D); Everted endophallus, dorsal view (I), lateral view (H), frontal view (G); Sternum VIII (J), Spermatheca (K). Figures not to same scale. Bar: 5 mm

FIGURE 3. Aclees saipanensis Kôno, 1942. Holotype ♀. Body (A); Rostrum, lateral view (C), dorsal view (D); Antenna (H); Prono- tum (B); Sternum VIII (E); Gonocoxites (G); Spermatheca (F). Figures not to same scale. Bar: 5 mm