Labidostomis (Labidostomis) hybrida ( Lucas, 1845 )

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 : 29-30

Labidostomis (Labidostomis) hybrida ( Lucas, 1845)

Clythra (Labidostomis) hybrida Lucas, 1845: 121 (original description).

Labidostomis roberti Pic, 1919b: 23 (original description).

Labidostomis hybrida var. atlasica Kocher, 1959: 7 (unavailable infrasubspeciħc name).

Type localities. Clythra hybrida : ‘environs d ̓ Oran’ [ Algeria]. Labidostomis roberti : ‘environs de Rabat’ [ Morocco]. Labidostomis hybrida var. atlasica : ‘Ifrane, Tizi-n-Hassa, Ouest de Missour, Talmest [ Morocco]’.

Type material examined. Clythra hybrida : LECTOTYPE (designated by RAPILLY 1984a): ♂, ‘hybrida / Dej. [w, h] // Labidostomis / sp. … [partly illegible, w, h] // LECTOTYPE [r, p] // Labidostomis / hybrida Lucas [h] / M. Rapilly dét. 19 [p] 83 [w, h]’ ( MNHN – coll. Lucas). PARALECTOTYPE: ♂, ‘ Labidostomis / hybrida Lucas [w, h] // Museum Paris [p] / Col. Lucas [w, h] // PARALECTOTYPE [r, p]’ ( MNHN – coll. Lucas).

Labidostomis roberti : SYNTYPES: 1 ♀, ‘ Labidostomis / Roberti mihi [w, h] // type [w, h] // Labidostomis / Roberti Pic [w, h] // TYPE [r, p]’ ( MNHN – coll. Pic); 1 ♀, ‘n sp … / pres hybrida [partly illegible, w, h] // type [w, h] // TYPE [r, p]’ ( MNHN – coll. Pic).

Original material of infrasubspeciħc entity. Labidostomis hybrida var. atlasica : not examined.Not found in PJCP.

Distribution. Algeria and Morocco ( REGALIN & MEDVEDEV 2010b).

Comments. For long time L. hybrida was treated as a synonym of L. quadrinotata ( Fabricius, 1787) until RAPILLY (1984a) found that Fabricius ̓ L. quadrinotata belongs to Otiocephala and restored L. hybrida as a valid species. From ZMUK we received a photograph of the type of Cryptocephalus quadrinotatus Fabricius, 1787 and we conħrm that it really must be classiħed in Otiocephala . Based on examination of the type specimens of L. hybrida and L. roberti we also conħrm the synonymy of both species.

Labidostomis hybrida var. atlasica was described in a paper containing also description of subspecies ( KOCHER 1959), thus it became infrasubspeciħc according to Article 45.6.4 of the Code ( ICZN 1999). The original specimens of L. hybrida var. atlasica were not traced in Kocher ̓ s collection in PJCP. However, several specimens collected in 1960 and provided with the original Kocher ̓ s identiħcation labels are present in the collection.According to these specimens we have no doubts about the identity of var. atlasica , which is conspeciħc with L. hybrida .