Protoclytra (Lacordairella) taeniata Bezděk 2019, comb. nov.
Authors/Creators
- 1. Department of Zoology, Fisheries, Hydrobiology and Apiculture, Mendel University in Brno, Zemědělská 1, CZ- 613 00 Brno, Czech Republic.
Description
Protoclytra (Lacordairella) taeniata (Thunberg, 1821) comb. nov.
Fig. 11
Clythra taeniata Thunberg, 1821: 184 (original description).
Clythra (Camptolenes) fastuosa Lacordaire, 1848: 113 (original description). Syn. nov.
Clythra taeniata – Forsberg 1821: 287 (redescription).
Clythra (Camptolenes) taeniata – Lacordaire 1848: 117.
Lachnaea taeniata – Gemminger & Harold 1874: 3281 (catalogue).
Crabronites (Camptolenes) taeniata – Jacoby & Clavareau 1906: 16 (catalogue). — Clavareau 1913: 32 (catalogue).
Camptolenes taeniata – Medvedev & Erber 2003: 86 (misidentification?).
Lachnaea (Camptolenes) fastuosa – Chapuis 1874: 114.
Lachnaea fastuosa – Gemminger & Harold 1874: 3281 (catalogue).
Crabronites (Camptolenes) fastuosa – Jacoby & Clavareau 1906: 16 (catalogue). — Clavareau 1913: 32 (catalogue).
Protoclytra (Lacordairella) fastuosa – Medvedev 1970: 194.
Type localities
Clythra taeniata: “Cap” [= from the publication title]. Clythra (Camptolenes) fastuosa: “Afrique australe” [= Southern Africa].
Material examined
Holotype
SOUTH AFRICA • ♂; “Uppsala Univ. Zool. Mus. / Thunbergsaml. nr. 8232 / Clythra taeniata / Cap. TYP [r, p] // catenata. / Cap. 11 [box label, w, h]”; UUZM.
Additional material
SOUTH AFRICA • ♂, syntype of Clythra (Camptolenes) fastuosa; “23101 [w, p] // Caffraria / Krebs [blue-grey, h] // Camptolenes / fastuosa Lac. * [w, h] // fastuosa / N. / Caffr. Krebs. [b, h]”; ZMHB.
Distribution
RSA.
Comments
Lacordaire (1848) classified both Clythra taeniata and C. fastuosa in Camptolenes, a subgenus of Clytra. Having been the generic name Camptolenes Chevrolat, 1836 originally used for a different species (now a synonym of Clytra Laicharting, 1781, see Bousquet & Bouchard 2013), Monrós (1953) proposed the generic name Lacordairella Monrós, 1953 for the Camptolenes species sensu Lacordaire (1848) and designated Clythra fastuosa as the type species of Lacordairella. Later, Medvedev (1970) downgraded Lacordairella to subgenus of Protoclytra.
The comparison of the holotype of Clythra taeniata with the syntype of Clythra fastuosa deposited in ZMHB undoubtedly showed both taxa to be conspecific. Consequently, Clythra fastuosa is proposed as a new synonym of Protoclytra (Lacordairella) taeniata comb. nov.
Medvedev & Erber (2003) discussed the elytral colour pattern variability of Camptolenes taeniata, however, their drawings do not fit well with the elytral colouration of the holotype. I cannot exclude that Medvedev & Erber (2003) misidentified the studied specimens.
Currently, Protoclytra subgenus Lacordairella includes eight species, six of them were listed by Medvedev (1970). Two additional species were also described by Medvedev (1993a, 1993d). No keys to species of Lacordairella have ever been provided.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- UUZM , ZMHB
- Scientific name authorship
- Bezděk
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Coleoptera
- Family
- Chrysomelidae
- Genus
- Protoclytra
- Species
- taeniata
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic status
- comb. nov.
- Type status
- holotype , syntype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Protoclytra (Lacordairella) taeniata (Thunberg, 1821) sec. Bezděk, 2019
References
- Thunberg C. P. 1821. Coleoptera Capensia, antennis fusiformibus. Nova Acta Regiae Societatis Scientiarum Upsaliensis 8: 157 - 193.
- Lacordaire J. T. 1848. Monographie des coleopteres subpentameres de la famille des phytophages. Tome second. Memoires de la Societe Royale des Sciences de Liege 5: i-vi + 1 - 890.
- Gemminger M. & Harold B. 1874. Catalogus Coleopterorum hucusque descriptorum synonymicus et systematicus. Tom. XI. Chrysomelidae (Pars I.). G. Beck, Munich. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 9089
- Jacoby M. & Clavareau H. 1906. Coleoptera Phytophaga, Fam. Chrysomelidae, Subfam. Clytrinae. In: Wytsman P. (ed) Genera Insectorum. Fasc. 49. V. Verteneuil & L. Desmet, Brussels.
- Clavareau H. 1913. Chrysomelidae: 5. Megascelinae, 6. Megalopodinae, 7. Clytrinae, 8. Cryptocephalinae, 9. Chlamydinae, 10. Lamprosominae. In: Schenkling S. (ed.) Coleopterorum Catalogus. Pars 53. W. Junk, Berlin.
- Medvedev L. N. & Erber D. 2003. New species of Afrotropical Clytrinae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae), with new data on several known species. Annals of the Transvaal Museum 40: 73 - 90.
- Chapuis F. 1874. Famille des Phytophages. In: Lacordaire T. & Chapuis F. Histoire naturelle des insectes. Genera des coleopteres ou expose methodique et critique de tous les genres proposes jusqu'ici dans cet ordre d'insectes. Tome dixieme. Roret, Paris. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 8864
- Medvedev L. N. 1970. A contribution to the knowledge of African and Oriental Clytrinae (Coleoptera - Chrysomelidae). Entomologische Arbeiten aus dem Museum G. Frey 21: 184 - 195.
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- Monros F. 1953. Some corrections in the nomenclature of Clytrinae (Chrysomelidae). Coleopterists Bulletin 7: 45 - 50.
- Medvedev L. N. 1993 a. Clytrinae of Southern Africa (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae). Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 40: 369 - 389. https: // doi. org / 10.1002 / mmnd. 19930400219
- Medvedev L. N. 1993 d. New species and a new genus of South African Clytrinae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae). Annals of the Transvaal Museum 36: 1 - 8.