Thamiocolus tataricus (A. Schultze, 1900 )

Korotyaev, Boris A. & Friedman, Ariel-Leib-Leonid, 2020, A review of the weevil genus Thamiocolus (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Conoderinae: Ceutorhynchitae: Ceutorhynchini) from Israel, with notes on some adaptive features of Ceutorhynchini and a new synonymy, Israel Journal of Entomology (Oxford, England) 50 (2), pp. 103-131 : 124

Thamiocolus tataricus (A. Schultze, 1900)

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Ceutorhynchus tataricus A. Schultze, 1900: 44 .

Ceutorhynchus hispidirostris Iablokoff-Khnzorian, 1971: 190 , n. syn.

As the number of specimens was not reported in the original description, the only specimen from the A. Schultze collection ( NHMB), is here designated as the lectotype. The specimen was examined in the G. Frey Museum in MÜnchen by the first author. It is a 3.5 mm long female with the following labels: (1) “ ♀ ”, (2) golden square, (3) “ C. tataricus Schultze Turkest. ” (handwritten by A. Schultze), (4) “Type” (pink, printed), (5) “Sammlung Aug. Schultze” (printed), (6) “ C. tataricus Schultze Turkest. ” (handwritten with double black bordering). The type is glued on a narrow point, the claw-segment in 3 tarsi is missing .

Thamiocolus hispidirostris was described by Iablokoff-Khnzorian (1971) from Kondara Gorge in Tajikistan some 30 km N of Dushanbe based on a male (holotype) and a female (paratype) in the collection of the Zoological Institute of the Armenian Academy of Sciences in Yerevan. Both types have been examined by the first author .

“Turkestan” in the original description of Th. tataricus is most likely Kazakhstan, which was named this way at that time, or Uzbekistan. No material from Turkmenistan has been ever seen by the first author, and the record from this country in the Palaearctic Catalogue ( Alonso-Zarazaga et al. 2017) should be considered erroneous, although the occurrence of Th. tataricus in Kopet Dagh is not unlikely.The late E.M. Ishkov of the Institute of Zoology, Almaty, collected it in numbers from Phlomis brachystegia Bunge from 16 April to 7 May at altitudes of 1400–1800 m in the steppe and meadow-steppe belts with Juniperus L. in the Aksu-Dzhabagly Nature Reserve ( Kascheev & Ishkov 2001; this record was overlooked by Alonso-Zarazaga et al. (2017)) in Southern Kazakhstan (formerly Turkestan Province). The species was also collected in the Pskem Mountain Range in Uzbekistan by the late E.L. Guryeva of the Zoological Institute, St. Petersburg, and in Tajikistan.