Tituboea macropus ( Illiger, 1800 )

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 : 55-56

Tituboea macropus ( Illiger, 1800)

Clytra macropus Illiger, 1800: 128 (original description).

Titubaea ciliciensis Pic, 1904a: 57 (original description).

Titubaea macropus var. armeniaca Pic, 1918c: 18 (unavailable infrasubspeciħc name).

Type localities. Clytra macropus : ‘Friaul’ [= Northeastern Italia / Slovenia, Friuli region]. Titubaea ciliciensis : ‘Taurus cilicien’ [= Turkey, Taurus Mts.]. Tituboea macropus var. armeniaca : ‘Armenie’.

Type material examined. Clytra macropus : not examined.

Tituboea ciliciensis : SYNTYPES: 1 ♂, ‘Taurus [w, h] // type [w, h] // TYPE [r, p] // Titubaea / ciliciensis Pic [w, h]’ ( MNHN – coll. Pic); 1♀, ‘Taurus [w, h] // type [w, h] // Tit. ciliciensis / Pic [w, h] // TYPE [r, p]’ ( MNHN – coll. Pic).

Original material of infrasubpeciħc entity. Tituboea macropus var. armeniaca : ♂, ‘Russ. Armen: / Kulp. / 1901. Korb. [w, p] // type [w, h] // v. armeniaca / Pic [w, h] // TYPE [r, p]’ ( MNHN – coll. Pic).

Distribution. Central and Southeastern Europe, Turkey, Caucasus, Near East, Central Asia (for details see REGALIN & MEDVEDEV 2010b).

Comments. Tituboea macropus var. armeniaca was described in a publication containing also descriptions of subspecies ( PIC 1918c), thus it became infrasubspeciħc according to Article 45.6.4 of the Code ( ICZN 1999). Both Tituboea ciliciensis and T. macropus var. armeniaca are conspeciħc with T. macropus .