Amphicoma (Pygopleurus) mithridates Petrovitz, 1962

Bezděk, Aleš, Hájek, Jiří & Ascr, Biology Centre, 2009, Catalogue of type specimens of beetles (Coleoptera) deposited in the National Museum, Prague, Czech Republic, Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 49 (1), pp. 297-332 : 323

Amphicoma (Pygopleurus) mithridates Petrovitz, 1962

Amphicoma (Pygopleurus) mithridates Petrovitz, 1962: 116 , Fig. 11.

Twelve paratypes are deposited inNMPC (general collection):

PARATYPES (2 JJ): ‘ Isparta [p] // Asia minor / leg. Petrovitz [p] // PARATYPUS [p, red label] // Amph. Pygopl. / mithridates m. / Petrovitz [p]’.

PARATYPES (2 JJ): ‘ Asia minor: Konya / leg. Petrovitz - Ressl [p] // PARATYPUS [p, red label] // Amph. Pygopl. / mithridates m. / Petrovitz [p]’.

PARATYPE (unsexed specimen): ‘ Asia minor: Konya / leg. Petrovitz - Ressl [p] // PARATYPUS [p, red label] // Amph. Pygopl. / mithridates m. / Petrovitz [p] // PARATYPUS [p] / Amphicoma / mithridates / Petrovitz Tesař’ s hw, red label]’.

PARATYPES (1 J, 5 unsexed specimens): ‘ Burdur [p] // Asia minor / leg. Petrovitz [p] // PARATYPUS [p, red label] // Amph. Pygopl. / mithridates m. / Petrovitz [p]’.

PARATYPE (unsexed specimen): ‘ Burdur [p] // Asia minor / leg. Petrovitz [p] // PARATYPUS [p, red label] // Amph. Pygopl. / mithridates m. / Petrovitz [p] // PARATYPUS [p] / Amphicoma / mithridates / Petrovitz [Tesař’ s hw, red label]’.

Current status. Pygopleurus mithridates ( Petrovitz, 1962) , see, e.g., BARAUD (1989).