Coptocephala plagiocephala
Creators: name: Bezdċk, Jan
name: Regalin, Renato
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Chrysomelidae
Coptocephala
Coptocephala plagiocephala

description: Coptocephala plagiocephala (Fabricius, 1792)
Cryptocephalus plagiocephala Fabricius, 1792: 60 (original description).
Coptocephala melanocephala var. externepunctata Pic, 1895b: 89 (original description).
Coptocephala melanocephala var. tunisea Pic, 1901a: 80 (original description).
Coptocephala melanocephala var. theryi Pic, 1918c: 17 (unavailable infrasubspeciħc name).
Coptocephala melanocephala var. espanoli Pic, 1933c: 15 (unavailable infrasubspeciħc name).
Type localities. Cryptocephalus plagiocephala: ‘Gallia meridionali’ [= southern France]. Coptocephala melanocephala var. externepunctata: ‘Bône, etc.’ [= Algeria, Annaba]. Coptocephala melanocephala var. tunisea: ‘ Tunisie: Teboursouk et El Fedja’. Coptocephala melanocephala var. theryi: ‘ Algérie: Saint-Charles’. Coptocephala melanocephala var. espanoli: ‘ Maroc: Bab. Tazza’.
Type material examined. Cryptocephalus plagiocephala: not examined.The photos of 1 ♀ syntype were sent from ZMUC: ‘plagiocep- / halus [w, h] // plagioce / phalus [w, h]’.
Coptocephala melanocephala var. externepunctata: SYNTYPE: 1 ♂, ‘Bône / juin 86 [w, h] // type [w, h] // melanoceph [b, h] // TYPE [r, p] // v. externepunctata / Pic [w, h] // v.externepunctata Pic [grey label, h] // Museum Paris [p] / Coll. Pic [w, h]’ (MNHN – coll. generale).
Coptocephala melanocephala var. tunisea: SYNTYPE: 1♀ (strongly damaged), ‘type [w, h] // Teboursouk / Normand 5.98 [w, h] // v. tunisea Pic [w, h] // v. tunisea Pic [grey label, h] // type [w, h] // El Fedja / Dr. Normand [w, h] // TYPE [p] détruit [r, h] // Coptocephala plagio- / phala (Fabricius) [h] / M. Rapilly dét. 19 [p] 80 [w, h]’ (MNHN – coll. generale). Based on the original description, part of the specimens should be deposited in Normand ̓ s collection in Institut National Agronomique in Tunis.
Original material of infrasubspeciħc entities. Coptocephala melanocephala var. theryi: 1 ♀, ‘ ST. CHARLES / ALGÉRIE / A. THERY [w, p] // type [w, h] // Copt. v. Kuesteri [w, h] // TYPE [r, p] // v. theryi / Pic [w, h] // v. theryi / Pic [grey label, h]’ (MNHN – coll. generale).
Coptocephala melanocephala var. espanoli: not examined. The photos of 1 ♀ were sent from MZBS: ‘Bab. Tazza / Marroc / VII-29 [w, h] // Coptocephala / melanocephala / Ol. var (desiré) [w, h] // 76-7431 / MZB [w, p] // v. Espanoli / mihi [w, h] // Coptocephala / bistrinotata (Fab. 1803 / J. Bentanachs [w, p]’ (MZBS).
Distribution. Algeria, Italy (Sicily), Morocco, Tunisia (REGALIN & MEDVEDEV 2010b).
Comments. All four Pic ̓ s varieties are conħrmed as colour aberrations of C. plagiocephala. Two varieties (C. melanocephala var. theryi and C. melanocephala var. espanoli) were described in papers containing also description of subspecies (PIC 1918c, 1933c), thus became infrasubspeciħc according to Article 45.6.4 of the Code (ICZN 1999).
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 page 22, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4272771