Tituboea octopunctata ( Fabricius, 1787 )

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 : 57

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https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.4272771

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Tituboea octopunctata ( Fabricius, 1787 )
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Tituboea octopunctata ( Fabricius, 1787)

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Cryptocephalus octopunctatus Fabricius, 1787: 79 (original description).

Tituboea octopunctata var. unipunctata Pic, 1897b: 165 (original description).

Titubaea octopunctata var. siciliensis Pic, 1912b: 74 (original description).

Type localities. Cryptocephalus octopunctatus : ‘Barbaria’ [= North African coast from Morocco to Libya]. Tituboea octopunctata var. unipunctata : ‘Palestro’ [= Algeria: Lakhdaria]. Tituboea octopunctata var. siciliensis : ‘Sicile’.

Type material examined. Cryptocephalus octopunctatus : not examined. The photos of dissected ♂ syntype were sent from ZMUC: ‘C: 8 punctata / e Barbar: Vahl / e Tanger: Schoust … [partly illegible, w, h] // TYPE [r, p] // zmuc / 00031183 [w, p] // ANTIPA [p] / 8-punctata F. [h] / ERBER [p] vid. [h] 19 [p] 97 [w, h]’.

Tituboea octopunctata var. unipunctata : SYNTYPE: ♂, ‘Palestro / II mai 97 [w, h] // type. [w, h] // v. unipunctata [w, h] // TYPE [r, p]’ ( MNHN – coll. Pic).

Tituboea octopunctata var. siciliensis : SYNTYPES: 1 ♀, ‘ Sicile [w, h] // Type [w, h] // v. siciliensis / Pic [w, h] // TYPE [r, p]’ ( MNHN – coll. Pic); 1 ♂, ‘ Sicile [w, h] // Type [w, h] // TYPE [r, p]’ ( MNHN – coll. Pic).

Distribution. Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia ( REGALIN & MEDVEDEV 2010b).

Comments. Male syntypes of both varieties described by PIC (1897, 1912b) have visible apex of the aedeagus with characteristic apical sinuation. From ZMUC we received a photo of a dissected ♂syntype of Cryptocephalus octopunctatus and we conħrm both Pic ̓ s varieties as its colour aberrations and synonyms.

Tituboea octopunctata var. siciliensis was described from Sicily, however, its occurrence in Sicily needs to be veriħed as no additional material of T. octopunctata from Sicily is known.

ZMUC

Zoological Museum, University of Copenhagen

MNHN

Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Chrysomelidae

Tribe

Clytrini

Genus

Tituboea

Loc

Tituboea octopunctata ( Fabricius, 1787 )

Bezdċk, Jan & Regalin, Renato 2015
2015
Loc

octopunctata var. siciliensis

PIC M. 1912: 74
1912
Loc

Tituboea octopunctata var. unipunctata

PIC M. 1897: 165
1897
Loc

Cryptocephalus octopunctatus

FABRICIUS J. C. 1787: 79
1787
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