Lachnaia (Lachnaia) paradoxa ( Olivier, 1808 )

Bezdċk, Jan & Regalin, Renato, 2015, Identity of species-group taxa of the Western Palaearctic Clytrini (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) described by Maurice Pic and Louis Kocher, Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae (suppl.) 55, pp. 1-114 : 34

Lachnaia (Lachnaia) paradoxa ( Olivier, 1808)

Clytra paradoxa Olivier, 1808: 844 (original description).

Lachnaea paradoxa var. bistigmata Pic, 1912c: 90 (original description).

Lachnaea paradoxa var. kabyliana Pic, 1912c: 90 (original description).

Lachnaea paradoxa var. jurjurensis Pic, 1913b: 129 (original description).

Type localities. Clytra paradoxa : ‘côte de Barbarie’ [= North African coast from Morocco to Libya]. Lachnaea paradoxa var. bistigmata : ‘Constantine’ [ Algeria]. Lachnaea paradoxa var. kabyliana : ‘Kabylie, à Azazga’ [ Algeria]. Lachnaea paradoxa var. jurjurensis : ‘Djurjura: Aïtzer’ [ Algeria].

Type material examined. Clytra paradoxa : not examined.

Lachnaea paradoxa var. bistigmata : SYNTYPE: 1 ♂, ‘Constant [b, p] // Constantine / Algérie leg.? [w, h] // Type [w, h] // paradoxa var. / bistigmata Pic / type [w, h] // TYPE [r, p] // Lachnaia (s. str.) / paradoxa ♂ / ( Olivier, 1808) [h] / J. C. Bourdonné dét. [p] 2009 [w, h]’ ( MNHN – coll. Pic).

Lachnaea paradoxa var. kabyliana : SYNTYPE: 1 ♀, ‘Azazga [w, h] // paradoxa var. / kabyliana Pic / type [w, h]’ ( MNHN – coll. Pic).

Lachnaea paradoxa var. jurjurensis : SYNTYPES: 1 ♀, ‘ Aïtzer’ / … 74 [partly illegible, w, h] // vicina [w, h] // v. jurjurensis / type Pic [w, h]’ ( MNHN – coll. Pic); 1 ♀, ‘Aïtzer’/ 1874 [w, h] // vicina [w, h]’ ( MNHN – coll. Pic) .

Distribution. Algeria, Egypt, France, Italy (Sicily), Libya, Portugal, Spain, Morocco, Tunisia ( REGALIN & MEDVEDEV 2010b).

Comments. All three varieties described by PIC (1912c, 1913b) are conħrmed as colour aberrations and synonyms of Lachnaia paradoxa .