Smaragdina pallescens ( Pic, 1895 )

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 : 39

Smaragdina pallescens ( Pic, 1895)

Gynandrophthalma pallescens Pic, 1895a: 81 (original description).

Type locality. ‘Laghouat’ after lectotype designation; originally, ‘ Laghouat et Tébéssa’ [ Algeria].

Type material examined. LECTOTYPE (designated by RAPILLY 1983a): ♂, ‘ Laghouat [w, h] // G. pallescensPic / n sp. [w, h] // TYPE [r, p] // LECTOTYPE [r, p] // Museum Paris / Coll. M. Pic [w, p] // Smaragdina / pallescens (Pic) [h] / M Rapilly dét. 19 [p] 83 [w, h]’ ( MNHN – coll. generale). PARALECTOTYPES: 1 ♂, ‘type [w, h] // Laghouat [w, h] // pres immaculata / Lacd du Sénégal [w, h] // TYPE [r, p] // Museum Paris / Coll. M. Pic [w, p] // PARALECTO-TYPE [r, p]’ ( MNHN – coll. generale); 1 ♀, ‘type [w, h] // Tebessa [w, h] // ♀ [w, h] // pres G. brevicornis Lef. / esp. rem par la coloration [w, h] // TYPE [r, p] // Museum Paris / Coll. M. Pic [w, p] // PARALECTOTYPE [r, p]’ ( MNHN – coll. generale).

Distribution. Algeria, Israel, Tunisia ( REGALIN & MEDVEDEV 2010b).

Comments. We conħrm S. pallescens as valid species.