Coptocephala rubicunda rubicunda ( Laicharting, 1781 )

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 : 22-23

Coptocephala rubicunda rubicunda ( Laicharting, 1781)

Clytra rubicunda Laicharting, 1781: 169 (original description).

Coptocephala tetradyma var. subobliterata Pic, 1901b: 83 (original description).

Type localities. Clytra rubicunda : ‘Tyrol’ [after the title]. Coptocephala tetradyma var. subobliterata : ‘Abondance (Haute-Savoie) et Sonnay (Isère)’ [ France].

Type material examined. Clytra rubicunda : not examined.

Coptocephala tetradyma var. subobliterata : SYNTYPE: 1 ♂, ‘H. Savoie [w, h] // v. subobliterata / Pic [w, h] // Abondance / … [partly illegible, w, h] // type [w, h] // HOLOTYPE [r, p] // Museum Paris [p] / Coll. Pic [w, h] // Coptocephala tetradyma / subobliterata Pic [h] / M. Rapilly dét. 19 [p] 80 [w, h]’ ( MNHN – coll. generale).

Distribution. Central and South Europe (for details see REGALIN & MEDVEDEV 2010b).

Comments. Coptocephala tetradyma var. subobliterata was described from two localities: Abondance and Sonnay. We found the male from Abondance in Pic ̓ s collection but the deposition of specimen(s) from Sonnay is unknown to us. The aedeagus of the only known syntype of var. subobliterata perfectly matches that of C. rubicunda thus we conħrm the synonymy of both taxa.