Laparocerus obsitus Wollaston, 1864

Machado, Antonio, 2006, The type material of the species of Laparocerus Schönherr, 1834 (Coleoptera, Curculionidae, Entiminae), Journal of Natural History 40 (35 - 37), pp. 2001-2055 : 2031

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.1080/00222930601046659
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5232227
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scientific name	Laparocerus obsitus Wollaston, 1864
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Laparocerus obsitus Wollaston, 1864 View in CoL

Laparocerus obsitus Wollaston 1864, p 361 View in CoL .

Type locality. El Monte, San Mateo-Roque Saucillo, and Pinar de Tirajana , Gran Canaria, Canary Islands .

Lectotype: 1„ (dark blue card-line), Gran Canaria, Spring 1858, leg. Wollaston [Type] [ Laparocerus / obsitus /Woll. type]. NHM, London. Paralectotypes: 6 exx, Spring 1858, El Monte, San Mateo-Roque Saucillo, Pinar de Tirajana, leg. Wollaston (ex litt.). NHM, London. 9 exx, same data [Hope Entomological/Collections/Wollaston Coll.] [Laparoceru / obsitus Woll. ]. UMO, Oxford. 4 exx, same data. MNHN (Coll. Oberthür-Wollaston), Paris.

Remarks. Since this species shows important variations within the island of Gran Canaria, I am selecting as lectotype one specimen coincident in habitus with specimens collected by me in El Monte, one of the three localities mentioned in Wollaston’s original description of obsitus . Marseul (1872, p 534) proposed the replacement name Laparocerus persitus , which is unjustified.