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 text Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 2015 suppl. 2015-10-15 55 1 114 journal article 9543 10.5281/zenodo.4272771 77c874cd-4f85-4746-8466-3ca09e2c2b8d 0374-1036 4272771 urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:A431893C-11D8-4480-ABE1-BB65A823C734 Labidostomis ( Labidostomis ) testaceipes Pic, 1904 Labidostomis testaceipes Pic, 1904b: 93 (original description). Labidostomis delagrangei Pic, 1904b: 94 (original description). Type localities. Labidostomis testaceipes : ‘Syrie’. Labidostomis delagrangei : ‘Haute-Syrie:Mts Amanus’ [= Turkey , Hatay province, Nur Mts.]. Type material examined. Labidostomis testaceipes : SYNTYPES : 1 ♀ , ‘Amanus / Syrie [w, h] // L. testaceipes / Pic [w, h] // type. [w, h] // TYPE [r, p]’ ( MNHN – coll. Pic ) ; 1 ♀ , ‘mts / Amanus [w, h] // type . [w, h] // TYPE [r, p]’ ( MNHN – coll. Pic ) ; 1 ♀ , ‘ type [w, h] // TYPE [r, p] // L. testaceipes Pic / ( Amanus ) [w, h]’ ( MNHN – coll. Pic ) ; 1 ♀ , ‘ Amanus [w, h] // type . [w, h] // L. testaceipes / Pic [w, h] // TYPE [r, p]’ ( MNHN – coll. Pic ). Labidostomis delagrangei : SYNTYPES : 1 ♂, ‘Amanus / Syrie [w, h] // type [w, h] // Delagrangei [w, h] // TYPE [r, p] // Museum Paris [p] / Coll. Pic [w, h]’ ( MNHN – coll. Pic); 1 ♂, ‘… Amanus [partly illegible, w, h] // type. [w, h] // TYPE [r, p]’ ( MNHN – coll. Pic); 1 ♂, ‘Amanus [w, h] // type [w, h] // Labidostomis / Delagrangei Pic [w, h] // Museum Paris / Coll. M. Pic [w, p] // HOLOTYPE [r, p]’ ( MNHN – coll. Pic); 1 ♂, ‘type [w, h] // TYPE [r, p] // [illegible, w, h]’ ( MNHN – coll. Pic). Distribution. Iraq , Syria , Turkey ( REGALIN & MEDVEDEV 2010b ). Comments . Although PIC (1904b) mentioned both, male and female, in the original description of L. testaceipes , we found only females in his collection. In our opinion the information about male in the description is a mistake. WARCHA Ł OWSKI (1985) synonymized L. testaceipes with L. delagrangei described in the same PIC ̓ s (1904b) paper and treated L. delagrangei as a dark form of L. testaceipes . The specimens deposited in MNHN suggest different explanation referring to sexual dimorphism. The females were described as L. testaceipes , and the males, which are really darker than females, as L. delagrangei . WARCHA Ł OWSKI (1985) designated one male of L. delagrangei as a lectotype . However, in MNHN there is neither a specimen bearing a lectotype label, nor with Warcha Ł owski ̓ s identiħcation label. On the other hand, one of the specimens bears the label ‘Holotype’. In our opinion WARCHA Ł OWSKI (1985) had this ‘Holotype’ specimen on loan (as he mentioned exactly only one male examined from MNHN) and published it as a lectotype . Because the lectotype is not clearly labelled and can be confused with other type specimens of L. delagrangei , we treat the lectotype designation by WARCHA Ł OWSKI (1985) as an invalid act due to a conĦict with Article 74.5 of ICZN (1999) and consider all four specimens in MNHN syntypes .