Otiocephala rotroui ( Pic, 1934 )

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 : 36-37

Otiocephala rotroui ( Pic, 1934)

Cyaniris (Otiocephala) rotroui Pic, 1934: 26 (original description).

Type locality. ‘ Maroc: Bel Farah’.

Type material examined. SYNTYPES: 1 ♂, ‘Bel Farah / 9/4/32[w, h] // Nov. Sp [r, h] // ♀ in coll / Rotrou [w, h] // Otiocephala / Rotroui n sp [w, h]’ ( MNHN – coll.Pic); 1 ♂, ‘Bel Farah / 9/4/32 [w, h] // Otiocephala / Rotroui n sp [w, h] // TYPE [pink label, h]’( MNHN – coll. Rotrou); 2 ♂♂1 ♀,‘Bel Farah / 9/4/32 [w, h] // TYPE [pink label, h]’ ( MNHN – coll. Rotrou); 1 ♂, ‘Bel Farah / 9/4/32 [w, h] // Maroc / central [w, h] // Cyaniris / rotroui Pic / Ech. 1934, 26 / CoType ♂ [w, h]’ ( MNHN – coll. Peyerimhoff); 1 ♂, ‘Bel Farah / 9/4/32 [w, h] // Cyaniris / rotroui Pic / Echange 1934, 24 / Co-Type ♀ [sic!, w, h]’ ( MNHN – coll. Peyerimhoff).

Distribution. Morocco ( REGALIN & MEDVEDEV 2010b).

Comments. We conħrm O. rotroui as a valid species.