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
Coptocephala unicolor
(
Lucas, 1845
)
Clythra
(
Cyaniris
)
unicolor
Lucas, 1845: 125
(original description).
Coptocephala atra
Pic, 1932: 23
(original description).
Coptocephala unicolor
var.
aenescens
Pic, 1932: 23
(original description).
Type
localities.
Clythra unicolor
:‘environs de
Constantine
et du cercle de la Calle’ [
Algeria
].
Coptocephala atra
: ‘
Maroc
: Rabat’.
Coptocephala unicolor
var.
aenescens
: ‘Philippeville’ [=
Algeria
,
Skikda
].
Type
material examined.
Clythra unicolor
: not examined.
Coptocephala atra
:
SYNTYPE
: 1 ♂, ‘Rabat:
Maroc
/ Le Chilla /
21 Mai 1923
[b, h] //
Coptocephala
/ atra n sp [w, h]’ (
MNHN
– coll. Pic).
Coptocephala unicolor
var.
aenescens
:
SYNTYPE
: 1 ♂, ‘Philippeville [w, h] //
v. aenescens
/ Pic [w, h]’ (
MNHN
– coll. Pic).
Distribution.
Algeria
,
Italy
,
Malta
,
Morocco
,
Portugal
,
Spain
,
Tunisia
(
REGALIN & MEDVEDEV 2010b
).
Comments.
Coptocephala unicolor
group badly needs comprehensive revision based on examination of the primary
type
material. Until then we follow the arrangement as published by
REGALIN & MEDVEDEV (2010b)
; thus
C. atra
and
C. unicolor
var.
aenescens
are left as synonyms of
C. unicolor
.