Tituboea paykullii ( Lacordaire, 1848 )

Bezdċk, Jan & Regalin, Renato, 2015, Identity of species-group taxa of the Western Palaearctic Clytrini (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) described by Maurice Pic and Louis Kocher, Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae (suppl.) 55, pp. 1-114 : 57-58

Tituboea paykullii ( Lacordaire, 1848)

( Figs 38–39 , 176–178 , 182, 186 )

Clythra (Tituboea) paykullii Lacordaire, 1848: 161 (original description).

Antipa (Titubaea) testaceipes Pic, 1939: 18 (original description), syn. nov.

Antipa hirsutula Kocher, 1959: 70 (original description), syn. nov.

Type localities. Clythra paykullii : ‘ Algérie occidentale, Maroc’. Antipa testaceipes : ‘ Maroc: Ouezzan’. Antipa hirsutula : ‘Ijoukak, Sous’ [ Morocco].

Type material examined. Clythra paykullii : not examined. Deposition of the type material is unknown to us.

Antipa testaceipes : SYNTYPES: 1 ♂, ‘Ouezzan / 22 Aout 28 / Thery [w, p] // Antipa / testaceipes / n sp [w, h] // punctuation / elytrale plus [w, h] // TYPE [r, p]’ ( MNHN – coll. Pic) ; 1 ♀, ‘Ouezzan / 22 Aout 28 / Thery [w, p] // TYPE [r, p]’ ( MNHN – coll. Pic).

Antipa hirsutula : SYNTYPES: 1♂, ‘Ijoukak [p] / 12.7.36 [h] / G. Schramm [w, p] // [blank small rounded blue label] // exemplaire / dessiné [w, p] // A. Paykulli / s. sp. hirsutula / m [h] / Kocher det. [p] / HOLOTYPE ♂ [w, h]’; 1 ♀, ‘ Zone á Arganiers / Maroc: Sous [w, h] // A. Balafrej / 15.VI.56 [w, h] // [blank small rounded blue label]’ ( PJCP).

Additional material examined. MOROCCO: ‘ Marokko’ , without additional data, 5 ♂♂( FKCC) ; Aouluz , S of High Atlas, 150 km E of Agadir, 10.vi.2000, 1♂, Mühle leg. ( HKCH) ; Argana , 31.v.1994, 1♂, Farbiak leg. ( FKCC) ; Asni , 1 ♂, R. Gregor leg. ( NMPC) .

Distribution. Algeria, Morocco ( REGALIN & MEDVEDEV 2010b).

Comments. Because the deposition of the type specimens of T. paykullii is unknown to us, the concept of the species is based on consistently identiħed material in various collections.

Antipa testaceipes was described based on pale specimens with reduced black elytral pattern and is synonymized here with T. paykullii .

Antipa hirsutula was based on specimens with dorsum densely covered with short setae. All other important characters such as the shape of mandibles, aedeagus and emargination of male profemora are the same as in T. paykullii . All pubescent specimens originate from a relatively small area between Agadir and Marrakesh in Morocco. We consider them a local population of T. paykullii and treat them as conspeciħc.

For characters distinguishing T. paykullii and T. fasciata see Comments under T. fasciata .

Figures

Figs 35–39. 35–37 – Tituboea fasciata Lefèvre, 1872: 35 – aedeagus (dorsal, lateral and ventral views); 36 – spermatheca; 37 – right male protarsus. 38–39 – Tituboea paykullii (Lacordaire, 1848): 38 – aedeagus (dorsal, lateral and ventral views); 39 – right male protarsus. Scale bars: 1 mm for Figs 37 and 39; 0.5 mm for Figs 35, 36 and 38.

Figs 173–178. Tituboea paykullii species group, habitus: 173 – Tituboeafasciata Lefèvre, 1872 (male, 9.5 mm); 174 – T. femoralis Medvedev, 1962 (male, 11.5 mm); 175 – T. laticollis (Olivier, 1808) (male, 11.9 mm); 176–178 – males of T. paykullii (Lacordaire, 1848) from Morocco, illustrating the color variability (lengths: 176 – 9.5 mm, 177 – 7.8 mm, 178 – 8.8 mm).

Figs 179–186. Tituboea paykullii species group, head of males. 179–182 – frontal view: 179 – Tituboea fasciata Lefèvre, 1872; 180 – T. femoralis Medvedev, 1962; 181 – T. laticollis (Olivier, 1808); 182 – T. paykullii (Lacordaire, 1848). 183–186 – lateral view: 183 – Tituboea fasciata; 184 – T. femoralis; 185 – T. laticollis; 186 – T. paykullii.