Smaragdina vaulogeri ( Pic, 1894 )

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 : 41-42

Smaragdina vaulogeri ( Pic, 1894)

Gynandrophthalma vaulogeri Pic, 1895b : cclxxxv (original description).

Type locality. ‘ Syria: Akbès’ [= Turkey, near ø skenderun].

Type material examined. LECTOTYPE (designated by RAPILLY 1983a): ♂, ‘ SYRIE / AMANUS / C.D. 1891 [w, p] // type [w, h] // djebellina [w, h] // TYPE [r, p] // Museum Paris / Coll. M. Pic [w, p] // Vaulogeri Pic / type verus [w, h] // Vaulogeri Pic / type verus! / (subtus nigro-coerulea) [w, h] // LECTOTYPE [r, p] // Smaragdina / vaulogeri (Pic) [h] / M. Rapilly dét. 19 [p] 83 [w, h]’ ( MNHN – coll. generale). PARALECTOTYPES: 1 ♀, ‘type [w, h] // Vaulogeri / ♀ [w, h] // Gynandrophthalma / Vaulogeri Pic / differé de judaica / Lef. [w, h] // Museum Paris / Coll. M. Pic [w, p] // PARALECTOTYPE [r, p]’ ( MNHN – coll. generale); 1 ♂, ‘type [w, h] // SYRIE / AMANUS / C.D. 1891 [w, p] // G. Vaulogeri Pic [w, h] // PARALECTOTYPE [r, p] // Muséum Paris / Coll. M. Pic [w, p] // Smaragdina / vaulogeri (Pic) / det. A. Warcha Ł owski [w, p]’ ( MNHN – coll. generale).

Distribution. Turkey, Syria ( REGALIN & MEDVEDEV 2010b), Iran ( GHAHARI & HAWKESWOOD 2011).

Comments. Conħrmed here as a valid species. The year of publication of G. vaulogeri is sometimes listed as 1895 (e.g. REGALIN & MEDVEDEV 2010b) while other authors used year 1894 ( RAPILLY 1983a; WARCHA Ł OWSKI 2003, 2010). As found by EVENHUIS (2002), the bimonthly version of the Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France with the description of G. vaulogeri was issued on 31 st December 1894, while the quarterly version on 30 th May 1895. Hence, the year of publication is here ħxed to 1894.