Coptocephala massiliensis Pic, 1914

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 : 17

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scientific name	Coptocephala massiliensis Pic, 1914
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Coptocephala massiliensis Pic, 1914 stat. restit.

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Chrysomela quadrimaculata Linnaeus, 1767: 596 (original description, primary homonym, not Ch. quadrimaculata Linnaeus, 1758: 376 , now in Phyllobrotica View in CoL ).

Coptocephala rubicunda var. massiliensis Pic, 1914b: 11 (original description).

Coptocephala linnaeana Petitpierre &Alonso-Zarazaga, 2000:476 (new substitute name for Chrysomela View in CoL quadrimaculata Linnaeus, 1767), syn. nov.

Type localities. Chrysomela quadrimaculata : ‘ Germaniae saxosis’ [sic!; = Germany,? Saxony]. Coptocephala rubicunda var. massiliensis : ‘Marseille’.

Type material examined. Chrysomela quadrimaculata : not examined.The photographs of a lectotype (♀, designated by RAPILLY 1981), labelled:‘4-maculata [w, h] // 77 [w, p]’ and 1 paralectotype (♀), without any labels, both deposited in The Linnean Society, London, UK, are available at http://linnean-online.org/view/collection/insects/index.C.html.

Coptocephala rubicunda var. massiliensis : SYNTYPE: 1 ♂, ‘ Marseille [w, p] // type [w, h] // rubicunda / v. massiliensis Pic [w, h] // TYPE [r, p]’ ( MNHN – coll. Pic).

Distribution. France, Germany, Italy, Spain ( REGALIN & MEDVEDEV 2010b sub Coptocephala linnaeana ).

Comments. The identity of C. quadrimaculata was ħxed by lectotype designation (RAPIL- LY 1981). As Chrysomela quadrimaculata Linnaeus, 1767 is a primary homonym of Ch. quadrimaculata Linnaeus, 1758 (now Phyllobrotica quadrimaculata ), a new substitute name C. linnaeana was proposed by PETITPIERRE & ALONSO- ZARAZAGA (2000). Examination of a syntype of C. rubicunda var. massiliensis showed that it is conspeciħc with Ch. quadrimaculata Linnaeus, 1767 . As var. massiliensis is the oldest available name it is elevated here to species rank, and C. linnaeana is proposed as its new junior subjective synonym.