Tituboea chobauti ( Pic, 1896 )

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 : 47-48

Tituboea chobauti ( Pic, 1896)

( Figs 26–27 , 165–168 )

Gynandrophthalma chobauti Pic, 1896c: 142 (original description).

Titubaea chobauti var. semijuncta Pic, 1918c: 18 (unavailable infrasubspeciħc name).

Type localities. Gynandrophthalma chobauti : ‘ Algérie Sud:Aïn Sefra’. Tituboea chobauti var. semijuncta : ‘ Algérie Sud:Ain Sefra’.

Type material examined. Gynandrophthalma chobauti : SYNTYPES: 1 ♀, ‘Sefra [w, h] // type [w, h] // TYPE [r, p] // Muséum Paris / 1958 / Col. M. Pic [w, p] // G. Chobauti Pic [w, h]’ ( MNHN – coll. Pic); 1 ♂, ‘AÏN-SEFRA / Mai 1896 / Dr. A. CHOBAUT [w, p] // Type [red letters, w, p] // Titubaea / Chobauti / Pic / sub Gynandrophthalma [w, h]’ ( MNHN – coll. Chobaut).

Original material of infrasubspeciħc entity. Tituboea chobauti var. semijuncta : 1♂, ‘A. Sefra / mai 96 [w, h] // Tit. minor ? / Frm var.[w, h] // type.[w, h] // Titubaea [w, h] // v. semijuncta / Pic [w, h] // TYPE [r, p]’ ( MNHN – coll.Pic).

Additional material examined. ALGERIA: Biskra, 9.iv.1894, 1 ♂, without name of collector ( BMNH) ; Figuig, Dj. Grouz, 13.iv.1952, 1 ♂, W. Neugebauer leg. ( SMNS). MOROCCO: Aouloug , 25.–26.iv.1996, 1 ♀, R. Šigut leg. ( FKCC) .

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

Comments. Tituboea chobauti var. semijuncta was described in a publication containing also descriptions of subspecies ( PIC 1918c), thus it became infrasubspeciħc according to Article 45.6.4 of the Code ( ICZN 1999). Tituboea chobauti var. semijuncta is conspeciħc with T. chobauti .

Tituboea elegans Weise, 1898 described from Tanger ( Morocco) may be conspeciħc with T. chobauti . However, we avoid proposing the new synonymy without the study of the relevant type specimens. Their deposition is presently unknown to us as they were not found in ZMHB or Naturhistoriska Riksmuseet, Stockholm that house the main parts of Weise ̓ s collection.

Figures

Figs 26–29. 26–27 – Tituboea chobauti (Pic, 1896): 26 – aedeagus (dorsal and lateral views); 27 – spermatheca. 28–29 – Tituboea cingulata (Lefèvre, 1884): 28 – aedeagus (dorsal, lateral and ventral views); 29 – right male protarsus. Scale bars: 1 mm for Fig. 29; 0.5 mm for Figs 26–28.

Figs 165–172. 165–168 – Tituboea chobauti (Pic, 1896): 165 – habitus of male (Algeria, 6.1 mm); 166 – habitus of female (Morocco, 5.8 mm); 167 – head of male; 168 – head of female. 169–172 – Tituboea cingulata (Lefèvre, 1883) (syntype, male, 6.7 mm): 169 – habitus; 170 – habitus in lateral view; 171– head; 172 – labels.