Coptocephala unifasciata unifasciata ( Scopoli, 1763 )

Bezděk, Jan, 2019, Annotated review of Cryptocephalinae (Clytrini), Synetinae and part of Galerucinae (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae) described by Carl Peter Thunberg, European Journal of Taxonomy 499, pp. 1-42 : 8

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5852/ejt.2019.499

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:A50C1B67-2795-45D2-86EE-0A60637A4D1D

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10408156

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/E452AB6B-FFD6-FC71-0CDE-4A9E28E7F817

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scientific name

Coptocephala unifasciata unifasciata ( Scopoli, 1763 )
status

 

Coptocephala unifasciata unifasciata ( Scopoli, 1763)

Fig. 3 View Fig A–E

Buprestis unifasciata Scopoli, 1763: 66 (original description) (not examined).

Cryptocephalus melanocephalus Thunberg, 1787: 46 (original description). Syn. nov.

For a full list of synonyms, see Regalin & Medvedev (2010).

Type localities

Buprestis unifasciata : Carniolia [= Slovenia, based on title]; Cryptocephalus melanocephalus : not stated.

Material examined

COUNTRY UNKNOWN • ♀, holotype of Cryptocephalus melanocephalus ; “Uppsala Univ. Zool. Mus. / Thunbergsaml. nr. 8198 / Clythra bimaculata / melanoceph. TYP [r, p] // 2-maculata. / melanoceph. 13 [box label, w, h]”; UUZM .

Distribution

Europe (except northern part), Turkey, Kazakhstan, Mongolia ( Regalin & Medvedev 2010).

Comments

The holotype of Cryptocephalus melanocephalus is a female of Coptocephala . Although the identification of Coptocephala females is usually very complicated, the colouration of the head (black with orange labrum), elytra (two broad transverse metallic bands on each elytron) and legs (orange with dark basal halves of meso- and metafemora) is typical of the common European C. unifasciata unifasciata . As I see no differences between long series of C. unifasciata unifasciata and the holotype of Cryptocephalus melanocephalus , I propose a new synonymy: C. unifasciata unifasciata ( Scopoli, 1763) = Cryptocephalus melanocephalus Thunberg, 1787 syn. nov.

UUZM

Sweden, Uppsala, Uppsala University

UUZM

Uppsala University, Zoological Museum

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Chrysomelidae

Genus

Coptocephala

Loc

Coptocephala unifasciata unifasciata ( Scopoli, 1763 )

Bezděk, Jan 2019
2019
Loc

Cryptocephalus melanocephalus

Thunberg C. P. 1787: 46
1787
Loc

Buprestis unifasciata

Scopoli J. A. 1763: 66
1763
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