Tituboea illigeri ( Lacordaire, 1848 )

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 : 50

Tituboea illigeri ( Lacordaire, 1848)

Clythra (Tituboea) illigeri Lacordaire, 1848: 142 (original description).

Titubaea illigeri var. leprieuri Pic, 1895b: 89 (original description).

Antipa (Titubaea) illigeri var. semiundulata Pic, 1939: 18 (original description).

Type localities. Clythra illigeri : ‘environs d ̓ Alger’. Tituboea illigeri var. leprieuri : ‘ Algérie: Bône, Nemours, etc.’. Antipa illigeri var. semiundulata : ‘Algérie’.

Type material examined. Clythra illigeri : HOLOTYPE: ♂, ‘ Illigeri / Lac. / Barbarie Type [w, h] // Ex-Musaeo / Mniszech [w, p] // TYPE [r, p]’ ( MNHN – coll. Lefèvre).

Tituboea illigeri var. leprieuri : SYNTYPES: 1 ♂, ‘Nemours / … [partly illegible, w, h] // Illigeri [b, h] // type [w, h] // v. Leprieuri / Pic [w, h] // TYPE [r, p]’ ( MNHN – coll. Pic); 1 ♂, ‘Bone / mai 86 [w, h] // Illigeri / var. [b, h] // type [w, h] // TYPE [r, p]’ ( MNHN – coll. Pic) ; 1 ♂, ‘Bone / mai 84 [w, h] // Illigeri / var. [b, h] // type [w, h] // TYPE [r, p]’ ( MNHN – coll. Pic) .

Antipa illigeri var. semiundulata : SYNTYPE: 1♂, ‘ Algérie / Sibastien [w, h] // Labidostomis ? / ( Clythra ) / Leprieuri? [w, h] // v. semiundulata / mihi [w, h]’ ( MNHN – coll. Pic).

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

Comments. Both varieties are colour aberrations of T. illigeri and here conħrmed as its synonyms.