Ascopus lamottei ( Hoffmann, 1963 ) Borovec & Perrin, 2019

Borovec, Roman & Perrin, Hélène, 2019, Systematic position of Ascopus Marshall, Oreosecus Marshall, Perarogula Hoffmann and Rhadinocopes Hustache (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Entiminae) with description of a new species of Ascopus from Guinea, Zootaxa 4668 (2), pp. 245-257 : 247-248

Ascopus lamottei ( Hoffmann, 1963) , comb. nov.

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Perarogula lamottei Hoffmann, 1963: 313 (original description).

Perarogula lamottei: Lamotte & Roy 1998: 126 (faunistic note); Alonso-Zarazaga & Lyal 1999: 183 (catalogue). Type locality. Nimba, Camp II [ Guinea].

Type material. Type [= Holotype, sensu Hoffmann] ♁ ( MNHN): ‘76 Ph’[hw] // IFAN / NIMBA ( Guinée) / Lamotte et Roy / VII – XII 51 [p, blue] // Perarogula n.g. / Lamottei n.sp. m [hw] / A. Hoffmann det. [p] // TYPE [p, red] // Muséum Paris [p] Guinée M. Lamotte [hw, blue] // Ascopus / lamottei (Hoffmann) / Borovec & Perrin det. 2019 [p]’. Paratypes, 4 spec. ( MNHN): ‘76 Pb [in other three specimens ‘Pa’, ‘Ph’ and ‘Pg’] [hw] // IFAN / NIMBA ( Guinée) / Lamotte et Roy / VII – XII 51 [p, blue] // Perarogula / Lamottei m [hw] / A. Hoffmann det. [p] // PARATYPE [p, red] // Muséum Paris [p] Guinée M. Lamotte [hw, blue] // Ascopus / lamottei (Hoffmann) / Borovec & Perrin det. 2019 [p]’; 1 spec. ( MNHN): the same data as the previous three specimens, but with two added labels: ‘Mt To (1600 m) / Camp 1 [p] // Omotrachelus / sp. ign. [hw] / Det. G. A. K. Marshall [p]’; 1 spec. ( MNHN): ‘Mt. Nimba / Guinée VII-XII 51 / Lamotte et Roy [hw] // Perarogula / Lamottei m [hw] / A. Hoffmann det. [p] // PARA- TYPE [p, red] // Muséum Paris [p] Guinée M. Lamotte [hw, blue] // Ascopus / lamottei (Hoffmann) / Borovec & Perrin det. 2019 [p]’; 2 spec. ♁, ♀ ( MNHN): ‘Mt. Nimba / Guinée VII-XII 1951 / Lamotte et Roy [hw] // Perarogula Lamottei m. [hw] / A. Hoffmann det. [p] // PARATYPE [p, red] // Muséum Paris / 1968 / Col. A. Hoffmann [p, blue] // Ascopus / lamottei (Hoffmann) / Borovec & Perrin det. 2019 [p]’.

Remarks. Ascopus lamottei was described from 7 specimens of both sexes from “Nimba ( Guinea)”. However, there are 9 specimens labelled by Hoffmann in red labels as type and paratypes in his collection. The antennal scrobes are furrow-shaped (“brachyderine”-type), invisible dorsally and in profile directed below the eyes and not touching them, short antennal scape not reaching anterior border of pronotum, eyes not protruding laterally from the head, connate claws and metatibiae lacking corbels. Based on the above features, this species is clearly congeneric with Ascopus pyriformis Marshall, 1951 and it represents another valid species of the genus. Thus Perarogula Hoffmann, 1963 is a junior synonym of Ascopus Marshall, 1951 , syn. nov.

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FIGURES 1–4. Dorsal habitus. 1. Ascopus lamottei (Hoffmann); 2. A. curvipes (Hustache); 3. A. echinatus (Marshall); 4. A. pyriformis Marshall. Scale = 1.00 mm.