Hello,
the name Otiorhynchus scaber (Linnaeus, 1758) is currently treated as a synonym of Romualdius scaber (Linnaeus, 1758) (Basionym: Curculio scaber).
Sensu Reitter, the combination was used to refer to another species, Otiorhynchus carinatopunctatus (Retzius, 1783), and is thus not a real synonym of R. saber, but a misapplied name of O. carinatopunctatus.
The current treatment results in the wrong subsumption of a large number of records of O. carinatopunctatus under the name R. scaber on GBIF.
I suggest correcting this by treating O. scaber sensu Reitter as a misapplied name of O. carinatopunctatus.
Source: COL26.2 XR
Name: Romualdius scaber (Linnaeus, 1758)
Taxon: https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/314231/nameusage/6WWLB
Email: https://api.checklistbank.org/admin/email?address=cad0ede0dd6e8dc918ed9ff355de94ef8e98737e50951e0722b67dadb8c2e61fcca4b4d23a7b50f425be23485f22405c
Hello,
the name Otiorhynchus scaber (Linnaeus, 1758) is currently treated as a synonym of Romualdius scaber (Linnaeus, 1758) (Basionym: Curculio scaber).
Sensu Reitter, the combination was used to refer to another species, Otiorhynchus carinatopunctatus (Retzius, 1783), and is thus not a real synonym of R. saber, but a misapplied name of O. carinatopunctatus.
The current treatment results in the wrong subsumption of a large number of records of O. carinatopunctatus under the name R. scaber on GBIF.
I suggest correcting this by treating O. scaber sensu Reitter as a misapplied name of O. carinatopunctatus.
Source: COL26.2 XR
Name: Romualdius scaber (Linnaeus, 1758)
Taxon: https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/314231/nameusage/6WWLB
Email: https://api.checklistbank.org/admin/email?address=cad0ede0dd6e8dc918ed9ff355de94ef8e98737e50951e0722b67dadb8c2e61fcca4b4d23a7b50f425be23485f22405c