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
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10.5281/zenodo.4272771
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Tituboea chobauti
(
Pic, 1896
)
(
Figs 26–27
,
165–168
)
Gynandrophthalma chobauti
Pic, 1896c: 142
(original description).
Titubaea
chobauti
var.
semijuncta
Pic, 1918c: 18
(unavailable infrasubspeciħc name).
Type
localities.
Gynandrophthalma chobauti
: ‘
Algérie
Sud:Aïn Sefra’.
Tituboea chobauti
var.
semijuncta
: ‘
Algérie
Sud:Ain Sefra’.
Type material examined.
Gynandrophthalma chobauti
:
SYNTYPES
:
1 ♀
, ‘Sefra [w, h] // type [w, h] //
TYPE
[r, p] // Muséum Paris / 1958 / Col. M. Pic [w, p] // G.
Chobauti Pic
[w, h]’ (
MNHN
– coll. Pic);
1 ♂, ‘AÏN-SEFRA /
Mai 1896
/ Dr. A. CHOBAUT [w, p] //
Type
[red letters, w, p] // Titubaea / Chobauti / Pic / sub
Gynandrophthalma
[w, h]’ (
MNHN
– coll. Chobaut).
Original material of infrasubspeciħc entity.
Tituboea chobauti
var.
semijuncta
: 1♂, ‘A. Sefra / mai 96 [w, h] //
Tit. minor
? / Frm var.[w, h] // type.[w, h] // Titubaea [w, h] //
v. semijuncta
/ Pic [w, h] //
TYPE
[r, p]’ (
MNHN
– coll.Pic).
Additional material examined.
ALGERIA
:
Biskra
, 9.iv.1894,
1 ♂
, without name of collector (
BMNH
)
;
Figuig, Dj. Grouz,
13.iv.1952
,
1 ♂
,
W. Neugebauer
leg. (
SMNS
).
MOROCCO
:
Aouloug
,
25.–26.iv.1996
,
1 ♀
,
R
.
Šigut
leg. (
FKCC
)
.
Distribution.
Algeria
,
Egypt
,
Jordan
,
Morocco
(
REGALIN & MEDVEDEV 2010b
).
Comments.
Tituboea chobauti
var.
semijuncta
was described in a publication containing also descriptions of subspecies (
PIC 1918c
), thus it became infrasubspeciħc according to Article 45.6.4 of the Code (
ICZN 1999
).
Tituboea chobauti
var.
semijuncta
is conspeciħc with
T. chobauti
.
Tituboea elegans
Weise, 1898
described from
Tanger
(
Morocco
) may be conspeciħc with
T. chobauti
. However, we avoid proposing the new synonymy without the study of the relevant
type
specimens. Their deposition is presently unknown to us as they were not found in ZMHB or Naturhistoriska Riksmuseet, Stockholm that house the main parts of Weise
̓
s collection.