Labidostomis (Labidostomis) testaceipes Pic, 1904

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 : 31-32

Labidostomis (Labidostomis) testaceipes Pic, 1904

Labidostomis testaceipes Pic, 1904b: 93 (original description).

Labidostomis delagrangei Pic, 1904b: 94 (original description).

Type localities. Labidostomis testaceipes : ‘Syrie’. Labidostomis delagrangei : ‘Haute-Syrie:Mts Amanus’ [= Turkey, Hatay province, Nur Mts.].

Type material examined. Labidostomis testaceipes : SYNTYPES: 1 ♀, ‘Amanus / Syrie [w, h] // L. testaceipes / Pic [w, h] // type. [w, h] // TYPE [r, p]’ ( MNHN – coll. Pic) ; 1 ♀, ‘mts / Amanus [w, h] // type. [w, h] // TYPE [r, p]’ ( MNHN – coll. Pic) ; 1 ♀, ‘ type [w, h] // TYPE [r, p] // L. testaceipes Pic / (Amanus) [w, h]’ ( MNHN – coll. Pic) ; 1 ♀, ‘ Amanus [w, h] // type. [w, h] // L. testaceipes / Pic [w, h] // TYPE [r, p]’ ( MNHN – coll. Pic).

Labidostomis delagrangei : SYNTYPES: 1 ♂, ‘Amanus / Syrie [w, h] // type [w, h] // Delagrangei [w, h] // TYPE [r, p] // Museum Paris [p] / Coll. Pic [w, h]’ ( MNHN – coll. Pic); 1 ♂, ‘… Amanus [partly illegible, w, h] // type. [w, h] // TYPE [r, p]’ ( MNHN – coll. Pic); 1 ♂, ‘Amanus [w, h] // type [w, h] // Labidostomis / Delagrangei Pic [w, h] // Museum Paris / Coll. M. Pic [w, p] // HOLOTYPE [r, p]’ ( MNHN – coll. Pic); 1 ♂, ‘type [w, h] // TYPE [r, p] // [illegible, w, h]’ ( MNHN – coll. Pic).

Distribution. Iraq, Syria, Turkey ( REGALIN & MEDVEDEV 2010b).

Comments. Although PIC (1904b) mentioned both, male and female, in the original description of L. testaceipes , we found only females in his collection. In our opinion the information about male in the description is a mistake. WARCHA Ł OWSKI (1985) synonymized L. testaceipes with L. delagrangei described in the same PIC ̓ s (1904b) paper and treated L. delagrangei as a dark form of L. testaceipes . The specimens deposited in MNHN suggest different explanation referring to sexual dimorphism. The females were described as L. testaceipes , and the males, which are really darker than females, as L. delagrangei .

WARCHA Ł OWSKI (1985) designated one male of L. delagrangei as a lectotype. However, in MNHN there is neither a specimen bearing a lectotype label, nor with Warcha Ł owski ̓ s identiħcation label. On the other hand, one of the specimens bears the label ‘Holotype’. In our opinion WARCHA Ł OWSKI (1985) had this ‘Holotype’ specimen on loan (as he mentioned exactly only one male examined from MNHN) and published it as a lectotype. Because the lectotype is not clearly labelled and can be confused with other type specimens of L. delagrangei , we treat the lectotype designation by WARCHA Ł OWSKI (1985) as an invalid act due to a conĦict with Article 74.5 of ICZN (1999) and consider all four specimens in MNHN syntypes.