Smaragdina thoracica thoracica ( Fischer von Waldheim, 1842 )

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 : 41

Smaragdina thoracica thoracica ( Fischer von Waldheim, 1842)

Coptocephala thoracica Fischer von Waldheim, 1842: 20 (original description).

Coptocephala thoracica var. bijuncta Pic, 1906b: 42 (original description).

Cyaniris (Gynandrophthalma) thoracica var. latejuncta Pic, 1914c: 18 (original description).

Cyaniris thoracica var. subjuncta Pic, 1914d: 139 (original description).

Type localities. Coptocephala thoracica : ‘Songoria Rossica’ [= Russian Dzhungaria]. Coptocephala thoracica var. bijuncta : ‘Turkestan’. Cyaniris thoracica var. latejuncta : ‘Dshungarie: Borochoro’ [= China, Xinjiang, Boro-choro Mts.]. Cyaniris thoracica var. subjuncta : ‘monts Alexandre’ [= Kyrgyzstan, Kyrgyz ridge].

Type material examined. Coptocephala thoracica: Not examined.

Coptocephala thoracica var. bijuncta : SYNTYPE: 1 ♂, ‘Alai [w, h] // type. [w, h] // v. bijuncta Pic [w, h] // TYPE [r, p]’ ( MNHN – coll. Pic).

Cyaniris thoracica var. latejuncta : SYNTYPE: 1 ♀, ‘DSUNGARIA / Borochoro-Gb. / Coll. Hauser 6.05. [w, p] // Coptocephala / thoracica var [w, h] // v. latejuncta / Pic type [w, h] // TYPE [r, p]’ ( MNHN – coll. Pic).

Cyaniris thoracica var. subjuncta : SYNTYPE: 1 ♂, ‘Alexand / Gebirg / Koltze [w, h] // Gynandrophth. / II notata Wse. / (Heyden) [w, h] // Var pres / hilaris [w, h] // type [w, h] // v. subjuncta / mihi [w, h] // TYPE [r, p]’ ( MNHN – coll. Pic).

Distribution. China (Xinjiang), Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan ( REGALIN & MEDVEDEV 2010b).

Comments. All three varieties described by PIC (1906b, 1914c,d) are conħrmed as colour aberrations and synonyms of S. thoracica thoracica .