Tituboea biguttata ( Olivier, 1791 )

Bezděk, Jan, 2009, Tituboea attenuata, a new synonym of T. biguttata (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Clytrinae), Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 49 (1), pp. 283-285 : 285

Tituboea biguttata ( Olivier, 1791)

( Figs. 1–4 )

Clytra biguttata Olivier, 1791: 34 . Clytra (Tituboea) attenuata Fairmaire, 1875: 536 , syn. nov.

Type material. Tituboea attenuata : LECTOTYPE (designated here): J, ‘ Tunisia [printed] / Ludien / 29.4 [h] / Abdul Kerim 1873 [white label, printed] // [blank white label] // Typus [white label, red letters, printed] // attenuata / Fairm. [white label, handwritten] // Tituboea / attenuata / Typus!Fairm.[blue-green label, handwritten] // Lachnea / attenuata [white label, handwritten] ’. PARALECTOTYPE: ♀, ‘ Tunisia [printed] / Ludien / 29.4 [handwritten] / Abdul Kerim 1873 [white label, printed] // [blank white label] // PARATYPUS [pink label, printed]’ (coll. Museo Civico di Storia Naturale ‘Giacomo Doria’, Genova). The specimens are provided with one additional red printed label: ‘ LECTOTYPUS [PARALECTOTYPUS, resp.], / Clythra (Tituboea) / attenuata / Fairmaire, 1875, / des. J. Bezděk 2008’.

Figures

Figs. 1–4. Tituboea biguttata (Olivier, 1791). 1 – lectotype (male) of T. attenuata (Fairmaire, 1875) (9.10 mm); 2 – paralectotype (female) of T. attenuata (9.30 mm); 3–4 – aedeagus (lectotype of T. attenuata): 3 – dorsal view, 4 – lateral view. Scale bar = 1.0 mm.