Lachnaia (Lachnaia) paradoxa
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Lachnaia (Lachnaia) paradoxa (Olivier, 1808)
Clytra paradoxa Olivier, 1808: 844 (original description).
Lachnaea paradoxa var. bistigmata Pic, 1912c: 90 (original description).
Lachnaea paradoxa var. kabyliana Pic, 1912c: 90 (original description).
Lachnaea paradoxa var. jurjurensis Pic, 1913b: 129 (original description).
Type localities. Clytra paradoxa: ‘côte de Barbarie’ [= North African coast from Morocco to Libya]. Lachnaea paradoxa var. bistigmata: ‘Constantine’ [Algeria]. Lachnaea paradoxa var. kabyliana: ‘Kabylie, à Azazga’ [Algeria]. Lachnaea paradoxa var. jurjurensis: ‘Djurjura: Aïtzer’ [Algeria].
Type material examined. Clytra paradoxa: not examined.
Lachnaea paradoxa var. bistigmata: SYNTYPE: 1 ♂, ‘Constant [b, p] // Constantine / Algérie leg.? [w, h] // Type [w, h] // paradoxa var. / bistigmata Pic / type [w, h] // TYPE [r, p] // Lachnaia (s. str.) / paradoxa ♂ / (Olivier, 1808) [h] / J. C. Bourdonné dét. [p] 2009 [w, h]’ (MNHN – coll. Pic).
Lachnaea paradoxa var. kabyliana: SYNTYPE: 1 ♀, ‘Azazga [w, h] // paradoxa var. / kabyliana Pic / type [w, h]’ (MNHN – coll. Pic).
Lachnaea paradoxa var. jurjurensis: SYNTYPES: 1 ♀, ‘ Aïtzer’ / … 74 [partly illegible, w, h] // vicina [w, h] // v. jurjurensis / type Pic [w, h]’ (MNHN – coll. Pic); 1 ♀, ‘Aïtzer’/ 1874 [w, h] // vicina [w, h]’ (MNHN – coll. Pic).
Distribution. Algeria, Egypt, France, Italy (Sicily), Libya, Portugal, Spain, Morocco, Tunisia (REGALIN & MEDVEDEV 2010b).
Comments. All three varieties described by PIC (1912c, 1913b) are conħrmed as colour aberrations and synonyms of Lachnaia paradoxa.
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Biodiversity
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- MNHN
- Family
- Chrysomelidae
- Genus
- Lachnaia
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Coleoptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Olivier
- Species
- paradoxa
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- species
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- syntype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Lachnaia (Lachnaia) paradoxa (Olivier, 1808) sec. Bezdċk & Regalin, 2015
References
- OLIVIER A. G. 1808: Entomologie, ou histoire naturelle des insectes, avec leurs caracteres generiques et specitques, leur description, leur synonymie et leur tgure enluminee. Coleopteres. Tome sixieme. Baudonin, Paris, [4] + 613 - 1104, 46 pls.
- PIC M. 1912 c: Nouveaux coleopteres palearctiques. L, Echange, Revue Linneenne 28: 89 - 90.
- PIC M. 1913 b: Notes diverses, descriptions et diagnoses (Suite). L, Echange, Revue Linneenne 29: 129 - 130.
- REGALIN R. & MEDVEDEV L. N. 2010 b: Cryptocephalinae: Clytrini. Pp. 564 - 580. In: LOBL I. & SMETANA A. (eds.): Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera. Volume 6. Chrysomeloidea. Apollo Books, Stenstrup, 924 pp.