Tituboea cingulata ( Lefèvre, 1883 )

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 : 48

Tituboea cingulata ( Lefèvre, 1883)

( Figs 28–29 , 169–172 )

Camptolenes cingulata Lefèvre, 1883: 150 (original description).

Antina [sic!] (Titubaea) arabica var. donceeli Pic, 1929a: 14 (original description), syn. nov.

Type localities. Camptolenes cingulata : ‘Arabie (env. d ̓ Aden)’ [= Yemen, Aden env.]. Antipa arabica var. donceeli : ‘Arabie’.

Type material examined. Camptolenes cingulata : SYNTYPES: 1 ♂, ‘ Aden [w, h] // Type [p] ♂ [w, h] // Ex-Musaeo / LEFÈVRE / 1894 [w, p] // Muséum Paris [p] / Collection / Lefèvre [w, h] // Lectotypus [p] / Camptolenes / cingulata Lef. [r, h] // Antipa 196 [p] 9 [h] / cingulata Lef. [h] / L. Medvedev det. [w, p]’ ( MNHN – coll. Lefèvre); 1 ♀, ‘ Aden [w, h] // Type [p] ♀ [w, h] // Ex-Musaeo / LEFÈVRE / 1894 [w, p]’ ( MNHN – coll. Lefèvre); 1 ♂ 1 ♀, ‘ Aden [w, h] // Ex-Musaeo / LEFÈVRE / 1894 [w, p]’ ( MNHN – coll. Lefèvre).

Antipa arabica var. donceeli : SYNTYPE: ♂, ‘Arabie [w, h] // Type [w, h] // v. Donceeli / Pic [w, h] // TYPE [r, p]’ ( MNHN – coll. Pic).

Distribution. Saudi Arabia, Yemen ( REGALIN & MEDVEDEV 2010b), Djibouti ( FAIRMAIRE 1886). The record from Djibouti is uncertain and needs veriħcation.

Comments. The publication year of Camptolenes cingulata is sometimes listed as 1884 (e.g. REGALIN & MEDVEDEV 2010b). As found by EVENHUIS (2002), the bi-monthly version of the Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France with the description of C. cingulata was issued on 20 th September, 1883, while the quarterly version on 31 st January, 1884. Therefore the year of publishing is here corrected to 1883.

One male syntype of C. cingulata bears Medvedev ̓ s label ‘Lectotypus’ ( Fig. 172 ). According to our knowlegde, Medvedev never published the lectotype designation of C. cingulata , thus all four type specimens are still treated as syntypes.

The syntype of Antipa arabica var. donceeli deposited in MNHN is without any doubts conspeciħc with T. cingulata , thus var. donceeli is proposed as its new junior subjective synonym.

Figures

Figs 26–29. 26–27 – Tituboea chobauti (Pic, 1896): 26 – aedeagus (dorsal and lateral views); 27 – spermatheca. 28–29 – Tituboea cingulata (Lefèvre, 1884): 28 – aedeagus (dorsal, lateral and ventral views); 29 – right male protarsus. Scale bars: 1 mm for Fig. 29; 0.5 mm for Figs 26–28.

Figs 165–172. 165–168 – Tituboea chobauti (Pic, 1896): 165 – habitus of male (Algeria, 6.1 mm); 166 – habitus of female (Morocco, 5.8 mm); 167 – head of male; 168 – head of female. 169–172 – Tituboea cingulata (Lefèvre, 1883) (syntype, male, 6.7 mm): 169 – habitus; 170 – habitus in lateral view; 171– head; 172 – labels.