Coptocephala coptocephaloides
Creators: name: Bezděk, Jan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Chrysomelidae
Coptocephala
Coptocephala coptocephaloides

description: Coptocephala coptocephaloides (Lacordaire, 1848)
Clythra (Gynandrophthalma) coptocephaloides Lacordaire, 1848: 310 (original description). Coptocephala jaechi Warchałowski, 1991: 247 (original description).
Coptocephala furthi Medvedev, 1992: 55 (original description), syn. nov.
Material examined
Type material
ISRAEL: 1 ♂, holotype of Coptocephala jaechi, “ISRAEL 14.4. / Tiberias / leg. Jäch 1986 [w, p] // Coptocephala / jaechi mihi / det. A. Warchalowski [w, p] // HOLOTYPUS [r, p]” (BMNH); 1 ♂ 1 ♀, paratype of Coptocephala jaechi, “Tiberias [w, p] // Coptocephala / jaechi mihi / det. A. Warchalowski [w, p] // PARATYPUS [r, p]” (BMNH).
ISRAEL: 1 ♀, holotype of Coptocephala furthi, “ISRAEL [p] / Kadesh Barnea / 12.IV. [h] 19 [p] 74 [h] / D. Furth [w, p] // Coptocephala / unifasciata / Scop. [w, h] // [blank red label] // HOLOTYPUS [p] / Coptocephala / furthi m. [h] / L. Medvedev det. 199 [p] 1 [w, h]” (LMRM).
UNKNOWN COUNTRY: 1 ♀, syntype of Coptocephala coptocephaloides, “23220 [w, p] // Mesopotam. Helf. [w, h] // Gynandrophthalma / coptocephaloides / * / Lacord. [w, p] // LECTOTYPUS / Clythra / (Gynandrophthalma) / coptocephaloides / Lacordaire, 1848 / R. Regalin des. 1996 [r, p]” (ZMHB).
Other material
EGYPT: Sinai: 2 ♂♂, Wadi El Gedeirat, 13 Mar. 1937, A. Rabinovitsch leg. (USNM); 1 ♂, Wadi Um-Mitla, 21 Mar. 1937, A. Rabinovitsch leg. (USNM).
IRAQ: 1 ♂, Gaara, Fale, May 1978 (NMPC).
ISRAEL: 1 ♂, 1 ♀, NE of Arad, 7 Apr. 1981, Wewalka leg. (JBCB); 1 ♂, 2 ♀♀, Southern Negev, Har Quetura, 4 km SE of Shiz-zafon, 14 Apr. 1994, Volkovitsh and Dolgovskaya leg. (USNM); 1 ♀, Central Negev, Makhtesh Ramon, 8–14 km NE of Mizpe Ramon, 18 Apr. 1994, Volkovitsh and Dolgovskaya leg. (USNM); 1 ♂, Southern Negev, Zafit, 25 km ESE of Dimona, 13 Apr. 1994, Volkovitsh and Dolgovskaya leg. (USNM); 1 ♂, 1 ♀, Southern Negev, Zin, 14 km NW of En Hazeva, 11 Apr. 1994, Volkovitsh and Dolgovskaya leg. (USNM).
JORDAN: 1 ♀, Petra, 13–14 May 1995, P. Pucholt leg. (JBCB); 1 ♂, Tabaqat, 4 May 1995, P. Pucholt leg. (JBCB); 7 ♂♂, 3 ♀♀, Jarash, 20 Apr. 2002, M. Snížek leg. (NMPC); 4 ♂♂, 7 ♀♀, SW of Jarash, Alhuna, 12 Apr. 2009, M. Snížek leg. (JBCB); 11 ♂♂, 8 ♀♀, Zai N. P., 30 km NW of Amman, 32°06,7′ N, 35°34,6′ E, 6 May 2006, F. Kantner and L. Kantner leg. (NMPC); 11 ♂♂, 8 ♀♀, 20 km NNW of Al Karak, 31°14,7′ N, 35°42,5′ E, 1000 m a.s.l., 27 Apr. 2006, F. Kantner and L. Kantner leg. (NMPC); 1 ♂, 3 ♀♀, Pella env., 30 km W of Ajlun, 32°26,7′ N, 35°36,8′ E, 29 Apr. 2006, F. Kantner and L. Kantner leg. (NMPC); 2 ♂♂, 30 km WNW of Ajlun, 32°27,4′ N, 35°42,4′ E, 30 Apr. 2006, F. Kantner and L. Kantner leg. (NMPC); 3 ♂♂, 3 ♀♀, Pella env., 30 km W of Ajlun, 32°26′ N, 35°36′ E, 3 May 2006, F. Kantner and L. Kantner leg. (NMPC); 3 ♂♂, 3 ♀♀, 3 km NNW of Rabba, 31°18,045′ N, 35°43,534′ E, 900 m a.s.l., 27 May 2007, F. Kantner and L. Kantner leg. (NMPC); 1 ♂, Wadi Ramm, 12 May 1995, K. Deneš leg. (NMPC).
SYRIA: 2 ♂♂, 5 ♀♀, 17 km W of Dara, Wadi Al-Harir, 18–20 May 1995, J. Chaloupek leg. (JBCB); 2 ♀♀, R’Sai, 1 May 1994, M. Modrý leg. (JBCB); 1 ♀, Syria, La Brulerie leg. (USNM); 5 ♂♂, 5 ♀♀, Wadi Al Harir, 18–20 May 1995, P. Svoboda leg. (NMPC); 3 ♂♂, 4 ♀♀, Wadi Al Harir, 18 May 1995, V. Němec leg. (NMPC); 1 ♀, Damascus env., 10 km N of Duma, 29 Mar. 1994, S. Bečvář leg. (NMPC).
Type localities
Clythra coptocephaloides
UNKNOWN COUNTRY: “ Mesopotamie ”.
Coptocephala jaechi ISRAEL: Tveriya (Tiberias).
Coptocephala furthi
ISRAEL: Hadesh Barma [Kadesh Barnea].
Distribution
Egypt, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Sinai, Syria (Medvedev 1962; Lopatin et al. 2003; Regalin and Medvedev 2010b; present study).
Comments
Medvedev (1992) described Coptocephala furthi based on one female with strong pronotal punctures. Lopatin (2002) synonymised Coptocephala furthi with Coptocephala jaechi. Regalin & Medvedev (2010a) synonymised Coptocephala jaechi with Coptocephala coptocephaloides and restored Coptocephala furthi as a valid species. I examined the primary type material of all three taxa, supplemented by numerous additional specimens. The pronotal punctation is very variable, usually feeble, but in some populations (primarily in females) the punctures are strong. I am convinced that all three taxa are conspecific, and I propose Coptocephala furthi as a new synonym of Coptocephala coptocephaloides.
description: Published as part of Bezděk, Jan, 2018, Contribution to the knowledge of the Clytrini of the Eastern Mediterranean, the Near East and the Arabian Peninsula, with descriptions of four new species (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cryptocephalinae), pp. 1-37 in European Journal of Taxonomy 481 on pages 3-4, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2018.481, http://zenodo.org/record/3825315