Coptocephala destinoi Fairmaire, 1884

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 : 14-15

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scientific name	Coptocephala destinoi Fairmaire, 1884
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Coptocephala destinoi Fairmaire, 1884: 174 (original description).

Coptocephala fallaciosa var. tambei Pic, 1942b: 7 (original description), syn. nov.

Coptocephala destinoi var. latenotata Pic, 1949a: 4 (original description).

Type localities. Coptocephala destinoi : ‘Akbès’ [= Turkeynear the city of ø skenderun]. Coptocephala fallaciosa var. tambei : ‘Syrie’. Coptocephala destinoi var. latenotata : ‘Syrie’.

Type material examined. Coptocephala destinoi : SYNTYPE: 1 ♂, ‘ Coptocephala / Destinoi / Fairm / Akbes [w, h] // Museum Paris [p] / Coll. Fairmai- / re [w, h] // TYPE [r, p] // DESSIN [r, h] // DESTINOI Fairm. [w, h]’ ( MNHN – coll. generale, box ‘ Coptocephala pre-etude Rapilly’).

Coptocephala fallaciosa var. tambei : SYNTYPES: 1 ♂, ‘ Syrie / (També) [w, h] // v. Tambei / mihi [w, h]’ ( MNHN – coll. Pic); 3 ♂♂, ‘ Syrie / (També) [w, h]’ ( MNHN – coll. Pic).

Coptocephala destinoi var. latenotata : SYNTYPE: 1 ♀, ‘ Syrie / (També) [w, h] // v. latenotata / mihi [w, h]’ ( MNHN – coll. Pic).

Distribution. Caucasus, Cyprus, Greece (Kos, Samos), Iran, Syria, Turkey ( REGALIN & MEDVEDEV 2010b).

Comments. Coptocephala destinoi was treated as a subspecies of C. unifasciata for a long time and recently restored as a valid species ( REGALIN & MEDVEDEV 2010a). As in many other Coptocephala species, black elytral pattern is variable. The variety latenotata Pic, 1949 has both humeral spot and postmedian band extended while var. tambei has black pattern reduced, humeral spots are missing and postmedian bands are thin and not connected in the suture. The variety tambei was originally described as a variety of C. fallaciosa but the morphology of the aedeagus proved its conspeciħcity with C. destinoi .