Macrolenes dentipes ( Olivier, 1808 )

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 : 35-36

Macrolenes dentipes ( Olivier, 1808)

Clytra dentipes Olivier, 1808: 857 (original description).

Macrolenes ruþcollis var. latemaculatus Pic, 1897b: 165 (original description).

Macrolenes dentipes var. binotaticollis Pic, 1916a: 6 (original description).

Type localities. Clytra dentipes : ‘midi de l ̓ Europe, sur la côte de Barbarie, dans les îles de l ̓ Archipel’. Macrolenes ruþcollis var. latemaculatus : ‘Tebessa’ [ Algeria]. Macrolenes dentipes var. binotaticollis : ‘ France Méridionale’.

Type material examined. Clytra dentipes : not examined.

Macrolenes ruþcollis var. latemaculatus : SYNTYPES: 1 ♂, ‘ Tebessa / … [partly illegible, w, h] // type [w, h] // Muséum Paris / Coll. M. Pic [w, p] // TYPE [r, p] // v. latemaculatus Pic [b, h]’ ( MNHN – coll. generale); 1 ♀, ‘type [w, h] // Muséum Paris / Coll. M. Pic [w, p] // TYPE [r, p] // v. latemaculatus / Pic [w, h]’ ( MNHN – coll. generale).

Macrolenes dentipes var. binotaticollis : SYNTYPE: 1 ♂, ‘Ollioules [w, h] // type [w, h] // Muséum Paris / Coll. M.

Pic [w, p] // TYPE [r, p] // v. binotaticollis Pic [b, h] // v. binotaticollis / Pic [w, h]’ ( MNHN – coll. Pic).

Distribution. Mediterranean species (for details see REGALIN & MEDVEDEV 2010b).

Comments. Both varieties described by PIC (1897b, 1916a) are conħrmed as colour aberrations and synonyms of M. dentipes .