Menecleonus simplicirostris (Chevrolat, 1873)

Meregalli, Massimo, 2017, Taxonomic and nomenclatural acts formalizing the classification provided in the world catalogue of the Cleonini (Curculionidae: Lixinae), Zootaxa 4323 (3), pp. 445-450 : 448

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4323.3.13
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:1A2Aabb3-9Bda-484D-8A19-A1Ffd7647D6A
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6028736
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/63015738-FF82-4D1E-FF0D-AAC33A7FFA0B
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Menecleonus simplicirostris (Chevrolat, 1873)
status

Treatment

transferred from synonymy with M. virgatus (Schoenherr, 1832) View in CoL to synonymy with Menecleonus signaticollis (Gyllenhal, 1834) syn. n. (ST of M. simplicirostris examined, photograph in WCC).

Remarks. Menecleonus signaticollis and M. anxius were both described from Persia, whereas M. virgatus was described from Caucasus. All specimens examined from Caucasus differ from those from Persia in the key-characters cited by Faust (1904) for the distinction between the two species. It seems thus that the two taxa are geographical allopatric vicariants.