Lachnaia (Lachnaia) peyerimhoffi Kocher, 1953

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 : 34-35

Lachnaia (Lachnaia) peyerimhoffi Kocher, 1953

Lachnaea lucidicollis var. peyerimhofþ Kocher, 1953: 86 (original description).

Type locality. ‘tout le Grand et le Moyen-Atlas’ [ Morocco].

Type material examined. SYNTYPES: 1 ♂, ‘TAQUELFT / Gd Atlas (Kocher) [p] / 1100 m. 6. 48 [w, h] // [small blue rounded blank label] // cylindrica? [w, h] // non! voir / pt. huméral [w, h] // [illegible, w, h] // var. / Peyerimhofħ [h] / Kocher det. [p] nov. [w, h]’ ( PJCP) ; 1 ♀, ‘ Taquelft / Gd Atlas Mar. / 1100 m. / (Kocher) [w, h] // Peyerimhofħ [h] / Kocher det. [p] m. [w, h]’ ( MNHN – coll. Peyerimhoff) .

Distribution. Morocco ( REGALIN & MEDVEDEV 2010b).

Comments. Lachnaea lucidicollis var. peyerimhofþ was described in a publication containing also descriptions of subspecies ( KOCHER 1953), thus it became infrasubspeciħc according to Article 45.6.4 of the Code ( ICZN 1999). However, it was validated with the original authorship in accordance with Article 45.6.4.1 of ICZN (1999) because CODINA PADILLA (1958) adopted L. peyerimhofþ as a species name.

The type locality was mentioned only superħcially as ‘tout le Grand et le Moyen-Atlas’ [= whole High and Middle Atlas Mts.], however the specimens in PJCP and MNHN bear the labels with exact localities. Due to this ambiguity we tentatively treat only two specimens which bear original Kocher ̓ s identiħcation label as true syntypes.