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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Smaragdina persica
(
Pic, 1911
)
(
Figs 133–136
)
Gynandrophthalma persica
Pic, 1911: 107
(original description).
Smaragdina mirabilis
Romantsov, 2012: 64
(original description),
syn. nov.
Type
localities.
Gynandrophthalma persica
: ‘Perse: Luristan’ [=
Iran
,
Lorestan province
].
Smaragdina mirabilis
: ‘S
Iran
, Kohkiloye-va-Boyerhamad Province, Yasuj area, 10 SE Sepidar’.
Type material examined.
Gynandrophthalma persica
:
SYNTYPE
:
♀
, ‘v. Bodemeyer /
Persien
/
Luristan
[w, p] // type [w, h] //
TYPE
[r, p] // Persica/ Pic [w, h] // Museum Paris / Coll. M. Pic [w, p] //
Smaragdina
/
persica (Pic)
[h] / M Rapilly dét. 19 [p] 83 [w, h]’ (
MNHN
– coll. generale).
Smaragdina mirabilis
: Not examined. Photos of the
holotype
and the
paratype
(
Figs 135–136
) were sent to us by Pavel Romantsov.
Additional material examined.
IRAN
:
FARS
PROVINCE:
Dash-e Arzhan env.,
29°34'02"N 51°56'44"E
,
2100–2300 m
,
29.iv.2010
, 1 ♂, A. Weigel leg. (
FFCJ
).
KOHGƮRỮYE- O- BỮYER-
AHMAD
PROVINCE:
Sisakht, Dena Mt., Kuh-Gol vall.,
30°84'N
,
51°53'E
,
2498 m
,
27.v.2009
, 1 ♂
1 ♀
, J. Vo
ř
íšek leg. (
JBCB
).
LORESTAN PROVINCE
:
5–10 km
SW of Dorud,
1400 m
,
9.–10.v.2002
, 3
♂♂1 ♀
, G. Sama leg. (
RRCM
).
Distribution.
Iran
(
REGALIN & MEDVEDEV 2010b
). The record from
Turkey
(
MEDVEDEV 1975
) probably refers to some other species (see Comments).
Comments.
Examination of the
type
specimen (
Figs 133–134
) of
Gynandrophthalma persica
in Pic
̓
s collection without any doubts shows that this species was misidentiħed in all recent publications and keys (e.g.
ERBER &MEDVEDEV 1999
, MEDVEDEV & KATBEH- BADER 2002,
LOPATIN 2002
,
WARCHA
Ł
OWSKI 2010
,
ROMANTSOV 2012
). Moreover,
Smaragdina mirabilis
(
Figs 135–136
) is proposed as a new synonym of
S. persica
as there is no difference between the
type
specimens of both taxa. The identity of the taxon misidentiħed as
S. persica
in the above mentioned publications is unclear and requires further study.