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
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Coptocephala scopolina kuesteri
Kraatz, 1872
Coptocephala melanocephala
Küster, 1847: 100
(original description, secondary homonym, not
Clytra melanocephala
Olivier, 1808
, now in
Coptocephala
).
Coptocephala kuesteri
Kraatz, 1872: 230
(new substitute name for
Coptocephala melanocephala
Küster, 1847
).
Coptocephala melanocephala
var.
andalusiaca
Pic, 1918c: 17
(unavailable infrasubspeciħc name).
Type
localities.
Coptocephala melanocephala
: ‘bei Trau in Dalmatien’ [=
Croatia
, Trogir].
Coptocephala melanocephala
var.
andalusiaca
: ‘Andalousie’ [patria falsa].
Type
material examined.
Coptocephala melanocephala
: not examined.
Original material of infrasubspeciħc entity.
Coptocephala melanocephala
var.
andalusiaca
:
1 ♂
, ‘Andalus [w, h] // type [w, h] //
TYPE
[r, p] // Muséum Paris / Coll. M. Pic [w, h] //
v. andalusiaca Pic
[b, h] //
v. andalusiaca
/ Pic [w, h] //
Coptocephala
/ küsteri Kraatz [h] / M. Rapilly dét. 19 [p] 80 [w, h]’ (
MNHN
– coll. generale).
Distribution.
Croatia
,
Italy
,
Serbia
,
Slovenia
,
Switzerland
(
REGALIN & MEDVEDEV 2010b
).
Comments.
Coptocephala melanocephala
var.
andalusiaca
was described in a paper containing also a description of a subspecies (
PIC 1918c
), thus it became infrasubspeciħc according to Article 45.6.4 of the Code (
ICZN 1999
).
Coptocephala scopolina kuesteri
is distributed in
Italy
and former
Yugoslavia
(e.g. WARCHA
Ł
OWSKI 1991
,
REGALIN & MEDVEDEV 2010b
). We agree with the late Michel Rapilly who dissected the original male specimen of
var.
andalusiaca
and identiħed it as
C. scopolina kuesteri
. As
Andalusia
(
Spain
) is placed far from the distribution range of
C. scopolina kuesteri
we think that the original specimen of
var.
andalusiaca
was mislabelled.