Tituboea sexmaculata ( Fabricius, 1781 )

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 : 60

Tituboea sexmaculata ( Fabricius, 1781)

Cryptocephalus sexmaculatus Fabricius, 1781: 138 (original description).

Tituboea sexmaculata var. akbesiana Pic, 1897a: 82 (original description).

Titubaea sexmaculata var. humeralifer Pic, 1900: 91 (original description).

Type localities. Cryptocephalus sexmaculata : ̒ Italia’. Tituboea sexmaculata var. akbesiana : ‘Haute-Syrie: Akbès’ [= Turkey, near the city of ø skenderun]. Tituboea sexmaculata var. humeralifer : ‘ France méridionale’.

Type material examined. Cryptocephalus sexmaculata : not examined. The photos of 1 ♀ syntype were sent from ZMUC: ‘6 macu / latus [w, h] // ANTIPA [p] / sexamaculata F. [h] / ERBER [p] vid. [h] 19 [p] 97 [w, h]’.

Tituboea sexmaculata var. akbesiana : SYNTYPES: 1 ♀, ‘ SYRIE / AMANUS / C.D. 1891 [w, p] // macropus [w, h] // type [w, h] // TYPE [r, p] // sexmaculata / v. akbesiana / Pic / pres fulvipes [w, h]’ ( MNHN – coll. Pic); 1 ♀, ‘ Tituboea / macropus / Akbès 94 [w, h] // type [w, h] // T. sexmaculata / v. nouvelle pres / ruħpes Lef. [w, h] // TYPE [r, p]’ ( MNHN – coll. Pic).

Tituboea sexmaculata var. humeralifer : SYNTYPE: 1♀, ‘ Fe. Mle. [w, h] // 6 maculata [w, h] // Type [w, h] // Muséum Paris / Coll.M. Pic [w, p] // TYPE [r, p] // v. humeralifer Pic [w, h]’ ( MNHN – coll. generale).

Distribution. Mediterranean species, eastwards to Iran (for details see REGALIN & MEDVEDEV 2010b).

Comments. Both varieties described by PIC (1897a, 1900) are conħrmed as synonyms of T. sexmaculata .