Tituboea laticollis ( 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 : 53

Tituboea laticollis ( Olivier, 1808)

( Figs 32–34 , 175 , 181, 185 )

Clytra laticollis Olivier, 1808: 846 (original description).

Titubaea laticollis var. subjuncta Pic, 1903: 114 (original description).

Type localities. Clytra laticollis : ‘côte de Barbarie’ [= North African coast from Morocco to Libya]. Tituboea laticollis var. subjuncta : ‘ Tunisie: Gafsa’.

Type material examined. Clytra laticollis : not examined.

Tituboea laticollis var. subjuncta : SYNTYPE: 1 ♂, ‘ Gafsa [w, h] // Type [w, h] // v. subjuncta Pic [w, h] // TYPE [r, p]’ ( MNHN – coll. Pic); 1 ♀, ‘ Gafsa / (Bome) [w, h] // Type [w, h] // TYPE [r, p]’ ( MNHN – coll. Pic).

Additional material examined. TUNISIA: Gafsa env., 27.vi.1976, 2 ♂♂1 ♀, Mager & Mühle leg. ( HKCH) ; 8 km SE of Gafsa-oued , 29.–30.v. 1993, 1 ♂, J. Batelka leg. ( FKCC) ; Monastir, 14.-20.vi. 2009, 1 ♂ 1 ♀, K. Orszulik leg. ( JBCB) .

Distribution. Algeria, Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia ( REGALIN & MEDVEDEV 2010b).

Comments. The type material of T. laticollis was not examined and its deposition is unknown to us. However, var. subjuncta is conspeciħc with T. laticollis in its widely accepted concept (e.g. LACORDAIRE 1848; REGALIN & MEDVEDEV 2010b; WARCHA Ł OWSKI 2003, 2010).

Figures

Figs 30–34. 30–31 – Tituboea femoralis Medvedev, 1962: 30 – aedeagus (dorsal, lateral and ventral views); 31 right male protarsus. 32–34 – Tituboea laticollis (Olivier, 1808): 32 – aedeagus (dorsal, lateral and ventral views); 33 – right male protarsus; 34 – spermatheca. Scale bars: 1 mm for Figs 31–33; 0.5 mm for Figs 30 and 34.

Figs 173–178. Tituboea paykullii species group, habitus: 173 – Tituboeafasciata Lefèvre, 1872 (male, 9.5 mm); 174 – T. femoralis Medvedev, 1962 (male, 11.5 mm); 175 – T. laticollis (Olivier, 1808) (male, 11.9 mm); 176–178 – males of T. paykullii (Lacordaire, 1848) from Morocco, illustrating the color variability (lengths: 176 – 9.5 mm, 177 – 7.8 mm, 178 – 8.8 mm).

Figs 179–186. Tituboea paykullii species group, head of males. 179–182 – frontal view: 179 – Tituboea fasciata Lefèvre, 1872; 180 – T. femoralis Medvedev, 1962; 181 – T. laticollis (Olivier, 1808); 182 – T. paykullii (Lacordaire, 1848). 183–186 – lateral view: 183 – Tituboea fasciata; 184 – T. femoralis; 185 – T. laticollis; 186 – T. paykullii.