Smaragdina flavicollis ( Charpentier, 1825 )

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 : 38

Smaragdina flavicollis ( Charpentier, 1825)

( Figs 130–132 )

Clythra ssavicollis Charpentier, 1825: 236 (original description).

Gynandrophthalma amasina Pic, 1897e: 197 (original description).

Type localities. Clythra ssavicollis : ‘Austriae alpibus’. Gynandrophthalma amasina : ‘ Turquie d ̓ Asie: Amasie’.

Type material examined. Clythra ssavicollis : not examined.

Gynandrophthalma amasina : SYNTYPES: 1 ♀, ‘type [w, h] // Amasie [w, h] // Museum Paris [p] / Coll. Pic [w, h] // TYPE [r, p] // amasina / Pic [w, h]’ ( MNHN – coll. Pic) ; 1 ♂, ‘Gynandrophth / Ħavicollis / Amas [w, h] // type [w, h] // Museum Paris [p] / Collection / Pic [w, h] // TYPE [r, p]’ ( MNHN – coll. Pic) .

Distribution. Most European countries and Turkey (for details see REGALIN & MEDVEDEV 2010b).

Comments. Although S. amasina was catalogued as a valid species by REGALIN & MED-VEDEV (2010b), it was already synonymized with S. ssavicollis by KASAP (1987). We also had the possibility to examine the syntype of Gynandrophthalma ssavicollis var. picticollis Weise, 1889 deposited in ZMHB. As both S. amasina and S. ssavicollis var. picticollis were described from Amasya and have the same colouration of pronotum (with black spot in the middle of posterior margin) it is evident that both taxa refer to the same population. KASAP (1987) mentioned that colouration of pronotum and coxae are variable characters in Turkish S. ssavicollis . On the other hand, all European S. ssavicollis that we examined have pronotum completely orange. As a result we tentatively respect the synonymy of S. amasina and S. ssavicollis var. picticollis with S. ssavicollis made by KASAP (1987). However, the specimens of S. ssavicollis from various regions should be revised as we cannot exclude the possibility that they could also represent an eastern subspecies or even species. If the population from Amasya is separated from S. ssavicollis in the future, the name S. picticollis will have to be used with S. amasina as its synonym.

Figures

Figs 126–132. 126–127 – Otiothraea rotroui (Kocher, 1961) (male, 4.0 mm): 126 – habitus; 127 – head. 128–129 – Otiothraea riffensis Romantsov, 2011 (holotype, male, Romantsov orig.): 128 – habitus; 129 – head. 130–132 Smaragdina ssavicollis (Charpentier, 1825) (syntype of Gynandrophthalma amasina Pic, 1897, female, 4.5 mm): 130 – habitus; 131 – head; 132 – labels.