Coptocephala fossulata Lefèvre, 1872

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

Coptocephala fossulata Lefèvre, 1872

Coptocephala fossulata Lefèvre, 1872: 372 (original description).

Coptocephala fossulata var. vitalei Pic, 1913a: 114 (original description).

Type localities. Coptocephala fossulata : ‘Sicile’. Coptocephala fossulata var. vitalei : ‘Palerme, en Sicile’.

Type material examined. Coptocephala fossulata : SYNTYPES: 1 ♂, ‘Type [p] ♂ [w, h] // Sicile / (Bellier) [w, h] // Ex-Musaeo / LEFÈVRE / 1894 [w, p] // Museum Paris / ex Coll. / R. Oberthur [w, p] // TYPE [r, p] // Coptocephala / quadrimaculata L. / sensu Rapilly, 1981 / ssp. fossulata Lefevre [h] / R. Regalin det. 199 [p] 1 [w, h]’ ( MNHN – coll. Lefèvre); 1 ♀, ‘ Sicile / (Bellier) [w, h] // Type [p] ♀ [w, h] // Ex-Musaeo / LEFÈVRE / 1894 [w, p]’ ( MNHN – coll. Lefèvre).

Coptocephala fossulata var. vitalei : not examined.

Distribution. Central and southern Italy, Sicily ( REGALIN & MEDVEDEV 2010b; Regalin, unpublished data).

Comments. Coptocephala fossulata var. vitalei was described from Vitale ̓ s collection. Unfortunately, some parts of his collection were destroyed, and all species of Clytrini are completely missing ( HORN et al. 1990, BAVIERA 2004). The synonymy of var. vitalei with C. fossulata is supported by the dissection of aedeagus of one non-type male from Sicily identiħed by Pic himself and deposited in his collection in MNHN.