Labidostomis (Labidostomis) testaceipes Pic, 1904 Labidostomis testaceipes Pic 1904
Creators: name: Bezdċk, Jan
name: Regalin, Renato
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Chrysomelidae
Labidostomis
Labidostomis testaceipes

description: Labidostomis (Labidostomis) testaceipes Pic, 1904
Labidostomis testaceipes Pic, 1904b: 93 (original description).
Labidostomis delagrangei Pic, 1904b: 94 (original description).
Type localities. Labidostomis testaceipes: ‘Syrie’. Labidostomis delagrangei: ‘Haute-Syrie:Mts Amanus’ [= Turkey, Hatay province, Nur Mts.].
Type material examined. Labidostomis testaceipes: SYNTYPES: 1 ♀, ‘Amanus / Syrie [w, h] // L. testaceipes / Pic [w, h] // type. [w, h] // TYPE [r, p]’ (MNHN – coll. Pic); 1 ♀, ‘mts / Amanus [w, h] // type. [w, h] // TYPE [r, p]’ (MNHN – coll. Pic); 1 ♀, ‘ type [w, h] // TYPE [r, p] // L. testaceipes Pic / (Amanus) [w, h]’ (MNHN – coll. Pic); 1 ♀, ‘ Amanus [w, h] // type. [w, h] // L. testaceipes / Pic [w, h] // TYPE [r, p]’ (MNHN – coll. Pic).
Labidostomis delagrangei: SYNTYPES: 1 ♂, ‘Amanus / Syrie [w, h] // type [w, h] // Delagrangei [w, h] // TYPE [r, p] // Museum Paris [p] / Coll. Pic [w, h]’ (MNHN – coll. Pic); 1 ♂, ‘… Amanus [partly illegible, w, h] // type. [w, h] // TYPE [r, p]’ (MNHN – coll. Pic); 1 ♂, ‘Amanus [w, h] // type [w, h] // Labidostomis / Delagrangei Pic [w, h] // Museum Paris / Coll. M. Pic [w, p] // HOLOTYPE [r, p]’ (MNHN – coll. Pic); 1 ♂, ‘type [w, h] // TYPE [r, p] // [illegible, w, h]’ (MNHN – coll. Pic).
Distribution. Iraq, Syria, Turkey (REGALIN & MEDVEDEV 2010b).
Comments. Although PIC (1904b) mentioned both, male and female, in the original description of L. testaceipes, we found only females in his collection. In our opinion the information about male in the description is a mistake. WARCHA Ł OWSKI (1985) synonymized L. testaceipes with L. delagrangei described in the same PIC ̓ s (1904b) paper and treated L. delagrangei as a dark form of L. testaceipes. The specimens deposited in MNHN suggest different explanation referring to sexual dimorphism. The females were described as L. testaceipes, and the males, which are really darker than females, as L. delagrangei.
WARCHA Ł OWSKI (1985) designated one male of L. delagrangei as a lectotype. However, in MNHN there is neither a specimen bearing a lectotype label, nor with Warcha Ł owski ̓ s identiħcation label. On the other hand, one of the specimens bears the label ‘Holotype’. In our opinion WARCHA Ł OWSKI (1985) had this ‘Holotype’ specimen on loan (as he mentioned exactly only one male examined from MNHN) and published it as a lectotype. Because the lectotype is not clearly labelled and can be confused with other type specimens of L. delagrangei, we treat the lectotype designation by WARCHA Ł OWSKI (1985) as an invalid act due to a conĦict with Article 74.5 of ICZN (1999) and consider all four specimens in MNHN syntypes.
description: Published as part of Bezdċk, Jan & Regalin, Renato, 2015, Identity of species-group taxa of the Western Palaearctic Clytrini (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) described by Maurice Pic and Louis Kocher, pp. 1-114 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae (suppl.) (suppl.) 55 on pages 31-32, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4272771