Identity of species-group taxa of the Western Palaearctic Clytrini (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) described by Maurice Pic and Louis Kocher
Author
Bezdċk, Jan
Author
Regalin, Renato
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Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae
2015
suppl.
2015-10-15
55
1
114
journal article
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10.5281/zenodo.4272771
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Coptocephala scopolina floralis
(
Olivier, 1791
)
Clytra ssoralis
Olivier, 1791: 37
(original description).
Coptocephala ssoralis
var.
subasciata
[sic!]
Pic, 1897c: 206
(original description).
Type
localities.
Clytra ssoralis
: ‘Provence’.
Coptocephala ssoralis
var.
subfasciata
: ‘Espagne’.
Type
material examined.
Clytra ssoralis
: not examined.
Coptocephala ssoralis
var.
subfasciata
:
SYNTYPE
:
1 ♂
, ‘
Espagne
[w, h] // Ħoralis var [w, h] // type [w, h] //
v. subfasciata
/ Pic [w, h] // TYPE [r, p]’ (
MNHN
– coll.
Pic
).
Distribution.
Portugal
and
Spain
(
REGALIN & MEDVEDEV 2010b
).
Comments.
STAINES & WHITTINGTON (2003)
published a list of Olivier
̓
s types of
Chrysomelidae
deposited in Dufresne
̓
s collection in the Royal Museum of Scotland in
Edinburg
including three
syntypes
of
Clytra ssoralis
. Richard Lyszkowski from the Royal Museum of Scotland kindly sent us the colour photos of all three specimens, and we identiħed them as
Macrolenes dentipes
(
2♀♀
) and
Coptocephala
sp. (probably
C. unifasciata
(Scopoli, 1763)
, 1 ♂).
OLIVIER (1791)
described
Clytra ssoralis
in the 6
th
volume of his
Encyclopedie Methodique
and explicitly mentioned black head and legs and small black humeral spot on elytra, but did not mention the deposition of the specimens. The description is provided with reference to a plate and a picture published later and associated with the 6
th
volume of another Olivier
̓
s publication:
Entomologie ou histoire naturelle des insectes
(
OLIVIER 1808
). It is necessary to note that
OLIVIER (1808)
also published another description of
Clytra ssoralis
, different to that from 1791; however, he explicitly mentioned the reference of description from 1791.
We are sure that the male
Coptocephala
specimen deposited in
Edinburg
is not the true
syntype
of
Clytra ssoralis
because of bicolorous legs. This male probably refers to the description from 1808. We also have some doubts about the type status of additional two females. Although the colouration of legs agrees with the description, the black spots on elytra have somewhat different shape in comparison with the original description (
OLIVIER 1791
) and with the picture in
OLIVIER (1808)
. In sum, we treat all three specimens deposited in
Edinburg
as non-type material of
Clytra ssoralis
.
We found one additional specimen of
Clythra ssoralis
in Olivier
̓
s collection in MNHN bearing a green round label ‘COLLECTION / OLIVIER / TYPE’ added by Olivier
̓
s son (Mantilleri, pers. comm. 2014). This specimen (actually a female of
Macrolenes dentipes
(
Olivier, 1808
))
originates from
Spain
(‘Hispan.’), while
Clytra ssoralis
was described from Provence in southern
France
. Thus we also tentatively treat it as a non-type specimen.
Currently we are unable to conħrm the identity of
C. scopolina ssoralis
as we have not found reliable type material. For the purposes of this paper we accept this taxon in its current usage (e.g. WARCHA
Ł
OWSKI 1991
,
2003
,
2010
) and the male
syntype
of
C. ssoralis
var.
subfasciata
is treated as its synonym. However, in the future we cannot exclude taxonomical changes based on clariħcation of the identity of
C. scopolina ssoralis
.