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

description: Coptocephala aeneopicta (Fairmaire, 1884)
(Figs 1–2)
Gynandrophtalma aeneopicta Fairmaire, 1864: 646 (original description).
Coptocephala aeneopicta var. bistrijuncta Pic, 1905b: 156 (original description).
Coptocephala aeneopicta var. biinterrupta Pic, 1918d: 23 (original description).
Coptocephala aeneopicta var. biscrensis Pic, 1918d: 23 (original description).
Coptocephala aeneopicta var. trimaculata Pic, 1918d: 23 (original description).
Type localities. Gynandrophtalma aeneopicta: ‘ Biskra’ [Algeria]. Coptocephala aeneopicta var. bistrijuncta: ‘ Algérie: Les Salines’. Coptocephala aeneopicta var. biinterrupta: ‘ Algérie:Aïn M ̓ lila’. Coptocephala aeneopicta var. biscrensis: ‘ Algérie: Biskra’. Coptocephala aeneopicta var. trimaculata: ‘Biskra’ [Algeria].
Type material examined. Gynandrophtalma aeneopicta: SYNTYPE: 1 ♀, ‘Gynandroph. / aeneopicta F. / Biskra [w, h]’ (MNHN – coll. Fairmaire).
Coptocephala aeneopicta var. bistrijuncta: SYNTYPE: 1 ♀, ‘Les Salines [w, h] // type. [w, h] // v. bistrijuncta / Pic [w, h] // aeneopicta var. / bistrijuncta Pic [w, h] // TYPE [r, p]’ (MNHN – coll. Pic).
Coptocephala aeneopicta var. biinterrupta: SYNTYPES: 2♂♂ (on same label), ‘Ain M ̓ lila / … ̓ 95 [partly illegible, w, h] // type [w, h] // v. biinterrupta / Pic [w, h] // TYPE [r, p]’ (MNHN – coll. Pic).
Coptocephala aeneopicta var. biscrensis: SYNTYPES: 1 ♂, ‘ Biskra / Desbrochers / 1889 [w, p] // Coptoceph. / sp.? Biskra [w, h] // type [w, h] // v. biskrensis / Pic [w, h] // TYPE [r, p]’ (MNHN – coll. Pic); 1 ♂, ‘ Biskra [w, h] // type [w, h] // TYPE [r, p]’ (MNHN – coll. Pic).
Coptocephala aeneopicta var. trimaculata: SYNTYPE: 1 ♂, ‘ Biskra [w, h] // type [w, h] // v. trimaculata / Pic [w, h] // TYPE [r, p]’ (MNHN – coll. Pic).
Distribution. Algeria, Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia (REGALIN & MEDVEDEV 2010b).
Comments. Coptocephala aeneopicta species group as deħned by WARCHA Ł OWSKI (1991) is characterised by mandibles sickle-shaped with long and thin left mandible without or with indistinct dorsal tooth on inner margin in males. The group comprises the following taxa: C. aeneopicta (Fairmaire, 1884), C. brevicornis (Lefèvre, 1872), C. coptocephaloides (Lacordaire, 1848) (= C. jaechi Warcha Ł owski, 1991), C. crassipes crassipes Lefèvre, 1876, C. crassipes iranica Medvedev, 1971, C. crassipes nepalica Medvedev, 1999, C. crassipes vavilovi (Lopatin, 1966), C. dilatipes Pic, 1923, C. furthi Medvedev, 1992, C. maidaquensis Lopatin, 2008, C. normandi Pic, 1914, C. panousei Kocher, 1959, and C. rungsi Pic, 1953.
All four varieties described by PIC (1905b, 1918d) are colour aberrations of Coptocephala aeneopicta and are conħrmed as its synonyms.
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 12, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4272771