Agroiconota subvittata ( Boheman, 1855 )

Sekerka, Lukáš, 2016, Taxonomic and nomenclatural changes in Cassidinae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae), Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 56 (1), pp. 275-344 : 282-283

Agroiconota subvittata ( Boheman, 1855)

Coptocycla subvittata Boheman, 1855: 287 (original description).

Agroiconota carlobrivioi Borowiec, 2005: 64 (original description, incl. colour fig.), syn. nov.

Type localities. Agroiconota carlobrivioi : Peru, Madre de Dios Department, Puerto Maldonado . Coptocycla subvittata : ‘Bolivia’.

Type material examined. Coptocycla subvittata : HOLOTYPE: pinned, ‘ Boliv [w, p, s] || Guerin [w, p, s] || Type. [w, p, s] || NHRS-JLKB | 000020906 [w, p, cb]’ ( NHRS).

Agroiconota carlobrivioi : PARATYPE: glued, ‘ PARATYPE | des.L.Borowiec [r, p, cb] || PERU Puerto | Maldonado [w, p, cb] || Dept.Madre de | Dios - C.Tello | XII.93 - I.94 [w, p, cb] || Agroiconota | carlobrivioi n. sp. | PARATYPE | des. L. Borowiec [w, p, cb]’ ( LSPC).

Remarks. BOROWIEC (2005) described Agroiconota carlobrivioi based on its unique colour pattern formed by irregular red stripes on yellow elytra while all similar species have regular stripes with complete borders. However, the identity of A. subvittata was erroneously interpreted; its holotype has an identical pattern to A. carlobrivioi and is conspecific with it. Therefore I consider A. carlobrivioi a junior subjective synonym of A. subvittata . See also remarks under A. urbanae .

The type locality of A. carlobrivioi, Puerto Maldonado, was wrongly spelled in the original description as ‘Puerto Malonado’.

BOHEMAN (1855) did not precisely state how many specimens he had at his disposal but based on the single length measurement and characters mentioned in the description it is assumed he had a singleton.

Distribution. Bolivia: Beni; Brazil: Goiás; Peru: Madre de Dios, San Martín ( BOROWIEC 2005).