Coptocephala crassipes crassipes Lefèvre, 1876

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 : 14

Coptocephala crassipes crassipes Lefèvre, 1876

Coptocephala crassipes Lefèvre, 1876 : lxxiv (original description).

Coptocephala crassipes var. leprieuri Pic, 1897e: 198 (original description).

Type localities. Coptocephala crassipes : ‘ Bou-Saada ( Algérie)’. Coptocephala crassipes var. leprieuri : ‘ Algérie: la Calle’.

Type material examined. Coptocephala crassipes : LECTOTYPE (designated by DOGUET & BERGEAL 2007): ♂, ‘Bou Saadah [w, h] // Type [p] ♂ [w, h] // Ex-Musaeo / LEFÈVRE / 1894 [w, p] // TYPE [r, p] // Museum Paris / ex Coll. / R. Oberthur [w, p] // Coptocephala / crassipes / Lefevre [h] / R. Regalin det. 199 [p] 1 [w, h]’ ( MNHN – coll. Lefèvre). PARALECTOTYPES: 1 ♀, ‘ Bou Saadah [w, h] // Type [p] ♀ [w, h] // Ex-Musaeo / LEFÈVRE / 1894 [w, p]’ ( MNHN – coll. Lefèvre); 1 ♀, ‘Bou / Saada / 1878 [w, h] // crassipes / n. sp.! [b, h] // type. [w, h] // C. crassipes / Lef [w, h] // TYPE [r, p]’ ( MNHN – coll. Lefèvre).

Coptocephala crassipes var. leprieuri : SYNTYPES: 1 ♀, ‘Lacalle / juin 82 [w, h] // Ħoralis. [b, h] // type [w, h] // v. Leprieuri / Pic [w, h] // TYPE [r, p]’ ( MNHN – coll. Pic); 1 ♀, ‘ La Calle / juill. 82 [w, h] // 854 [w, h] // Ħoralis [b, h]’ ( MNHN – coll. Pic).

Distribution. Algeria, Egypt, Italy (Sardinia: Sant ̓ Antioco Is.), Morocco, Tunisia ( REGALIN & MEDVEDEV 2010b).

Comments. The variety leprieuri was described based on specimens with pale tibiae ( PIC 1897e). Although in the original description both male and female are mentioned, in Pic ̓ s collection in MNHN only two female syntypes were found. The deposition of male syntype (s), if existing, is unknown to us. Although it is somewhat difħcult to deħnitely conħrm the species identity based on females only, the synonymy is here supported by examination of several specimens of C. crassipes (including male) from Algeria: Bone (NMPC) and Sardinia: Sant ̓ Antioco Is. (MSNG, RRCM) which also have orange tibiae.

DOGUET & BERGEAL (2007) designated a lectotype for C. crassipes , although they did not provide the actual specimens with respective labels. However, the lectotype and paralectotypes can be recognized according to label information given in DOGUET & BERGEAL (2007).