Plagiometriona buqueti ( Boheman, 1855 )

Sekerka, Lukáš, 2016, Taxonomic and nomenclatural changes in Cassidinae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae), Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 56 (1), pp. 275-344 : 298

Plagiometriona buqueti ( Boheman, 1855)

Coptocycla Buqueti Boheman, 1855: 371 (original description).

Type locality. ‘Columbia’.

Type material examined. LECTOTYPE (designated by BOROWIEC 1999a):♂, pinned, ‘Colum- | bia [w, p, cb] || Buquet [w, hw, s] || Type. [w, p, s] || LECTOTYPE | des. L. Borowiec [r, p, cb] || NHRS-JLKB | 000022544 [w, p, cb]’ ( NHRS). PARALECTOTYPE: pinned, ‘Colum- | bia [w, p, cb] || Fairm. [w, p, s] || PARALECTOTYPE | des. L. Borowiec [r, p, cb] || NHRS-JLKB | 000022545 [w, p, cb]’ ( NHRS).

Remarks. SPAETH (1937) reduced Plagiometriona moesta ( Boheman, 1855) as an aberration of P. buqueti , probably based on the primary description. Since then the former taxon has been considered as synonym of the latter (see BOROWIEC 1999a). According to the primary description BOHEMAN (1855) compared P. moesta to P. buqueti and mentioned that it has acutely pointed humeral angles and yellow elytra with a large black spot reaching far beyond the middle of elytra. Although many species of Plagiometriona display significant variability in the dorsal colour pattern (e.g. FLINTE et al. 2010), P. buqueti belongs to a group of species with fairly constant elytral pattern. Therefore it is desirable to study the type of P. moesta to verify whether the synonymy is valid.

The distribution is given according to WAGENER (1877), who published several faunistic records of P. buqueti from Colombia. It is necessary to verify respective specimens as they might also belong to P. bremei .

Distribution. Colombia: Boyacá, Cundinamarca, Tolima ( WAGENER 1877).