Labidostomis (Labidostomis) hebraea ( Lacordaire, 1848 )

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 : 29

Labidostomis (Labidostomis) hebraea ( Lacordaire, 1848)

Clythra (Labidostomis) hebraea Lacordaire, 1848:55 (original description).

Labidostomis quadrinotata var. bijuncta Pic, 1912a: 17 (original description).

Labidostomis quadrinotata var. bisbijuncta Pic, 1912a: 17 (original description).

Labidostomis quadrinotata var. posticejuncta Pic, 1912a: 17 (original description).

Type localities. Clythra hebraea : ‘ Israël, Mt. Hermon’ (neotype),‘Palestine’ (original type locality). Labidostomis quadrinotata var. bijuncta : not stated. Labidostomis quadrinotata var. bisbijuncta : not stated. Labidostomis quadrinotata var. posticejuncta : ‘Syrie’.

Type material examined. Clythra hebraea : NEOTYPE (designated by RAPILLY 1984a): ♂, ‘Trifolium [w, h] // ISRAËL Mt Hermon / 15.v.80 / M. RAPILLY 1450 m. [w, h] // NEOTYPE [r, p] // Labidostomis / hebraea Lacordaire [h] / M. Rapilly dét. 19 [p] 81 [w, h]’ ( MNHN – coll. generale).

Labidostomis quadrinotata var. bijuncta : not examined. Not found in MNHN.

Labidostomis quadrinotata var. bisbijuncta : not examined. Not found in MNHN.

Labidostomis quadrinotata var. posticejuncta : SYNTYPE: ♀, ‘ Syrie [w, h] // type [w, h] // v. posticejuncta / Pic [w, h] // Museum Paris / Coll. M. Pic [w, p]’ ( MNHN – coll. generale).

Distribution. Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey ( REGALIN & MEDVEDEV 2010b).

Comments. The original Lacordaire ̓ s type material of L. hebraea was not traced thus a neotype was designated by RAPILLY (1984a). PIC (1912a) described three varieties of L. quadrinotata which were transferred under L. hebraea by BAGUENA (1960). Of these varieties, weare able to conħrm the synonymy only for var. posticejuncta based on the examined syntype. The type material of var. bijuncta was not traced in MNHN, but in Pic ̓ s collection we found one female with his handwritten label ‘ var pres bijuncta Pic’ conspeciħc with L. hebraea . Based on this specimen we think that the synonymy of var. bijuncta with L. hebraea proposed by BAGUENA (1960) is correct.

In var. bisbijuncta we suppose that PIC (1912a) did not have any specimen(s) in hand and the description refers to the female ħgured on plate I (ħgure 2) in LEFÈVRE (1872) as it is mentioned at the end of Pic ̓ s description. Unfortunately, no specimen of such colouration was found in the MNHN collections. The female pictured in LEFÈVRE (1872) has very unusual black elytral pattern and we do not know any other specimen with such colouration. On the other hand we cannot exclude that such aberration may occur in L. hebraea ; thus, we decided to leave the var. bisbijuncta in synonymy with L. hebraea .