Thamiocolus pici Korotyaev, 1997

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 : 115

Thamiocolus pici Korotyaev, 1997 , sp. propria

( Figs 6, 10, 12–15, 20, 29, 36–40, 43–45)

Thamiocolus pici was synonymized with Th. calcaratus (Schultze, 1901) by Colonnelli (2004) without any comment. Description of Th. calcaratus was based on a single female from Konya Province (Schultze 1901) in Turkey. Dr Ch. Germann (NHMB) kindly made photographs of the holotype of Th. calcaratus published herein with his permission ( Figs 18, 24, 25); they depict a female very similar indeed to the females from Israel ( Figs 11, 20) except that it has scales on the elytral intervals slightly coarser than in Th. pici and white (which may be present also in Th. pici ) and the elytral striae are slightly wider.Yet we have not seen any specimen from the central or western parts of Turkey definitely conspecific with the holotype. Dieckmann (1975) recorded Th. calcaratus from eastern part of Turkey (Bingöl), where probably Th. anthracinus Colonnelli, 2005 ( Figs 16, 17, 22, 23) is actually distributed, as one of the paratypes of this species was collected even farther west in Malatya Province (Colonnelli 2005). Colonnelli (2005) records Th. calcaratus only from Konya and Isparta provinces; the photograph in his paper (Colonnelli 2005, fig. 33) depicts a small male with very sparse dorsal vestiture. In the Palaearctic Catalogue (Colonnelli 2013) he records Th. calcaratus also from Iran, but does not cite its record from Armenia ( Korotyaev 1980). In addition, Th. calcaratus was recorded by the first author (Korotyaev 1997; misidentified as Th. susannae Dieckmann, 1982 ) from the Araks River valley in Armenia (confirming the former record of 1980), from Azerbaijan (Nakhchivan) and northern Iran.