Published July 15, 2016 | Version v1
Taxonomic treatment Open

Agroiconota subvittata

Description

Agroiconota subvittata (Boheman, 1855)

Coptocycla subvittata Boheman, 1855: 287 (original description).

Agroiconota carlobrivioi Borowiec, 2005: 64 (original description, incl. colour fig.), syn. nov.

Type localities. Agroiconota carlobrivioi: Peru, Madre de Dios Department, Puerto Maldonado. Coptocycla subvittata: ‘Bolivia’.

Type material examined. Coptocycla subvittata: HOLOTYPE: pinned, ‘ Boliv [w, p, s] || Guerin [w, p, s] || Type. [w, p, s] || NHRS-JLKB | 000020906 [w, p, cb]’ (NHRS).

Agroiconota carlobrivioi: PARATYPE: glued, ‘ PARATYPE | des.L.Borowiec [r, p, cb] || PERU Puerto | Maldonado [w, p, cb] || Dept.Madre de | Dios - C.Tello | XII.93 - I.94 [w, p, cb] || Agroiconota | carlobrivioi n. sp. | PARATYPE | des. L. Borowiec [w, p, cb]’ (LSPC).

Remarks. BOROWIEC (2005) described Agroiconota carlobrivioi based on its unique colour pattern formed by irregular red stripes on yellow elytra while all similar species have regular stripes with complete borders. However, the identity of A. subvittata was erroneously interpreted; its holotype has an identical pattern to A. carlobrivioi and is conspecific with it. Therefore I consider A. carlobrivioi a junior subjective synonym of A. subvittata. See also remarks under A. urbanae.

The type locality of A. carlobrivioi, Puerto Maldonado, was wrongly spelled in the original description as ‘Puerto Malonado’.

BOHEMAN (1855) did not precisely state how many specimens he had at his disposal but based on the single length measurement and characters mentioned in the description it is assumed he had a singleton.

Distribution. Bolivia: Beni; Brazil: Goiás; Peru: Madre de Dios, San Martín (BOROWIEC 2005).

Notes

Published as part of Sekerka, Lukáš, 2016, Taxonomic and nomenclatural changes in Cassidinae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae), pp. 275-344 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 56 (1) on pages 282-283, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5305725

Files

Files (2.2 kB)

Name Size Download all
md5:9dc8b529c930c25f863a6bfff766288b
2.2 kB Download

System files (16.0 kB)

Name Size Download all
md5:3c4d799b43dcd341109397a21671248f
16.0 kB Download

Linked records

Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
NHRS
Family
Chrysomelidae
Genus
Agroiconota
Kingdom
Animalia
Material sample ID
000020906
Order
Coleoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Boheman
Species
subvittata
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype , paratype
Taxonomic concept label
Agroiconota subvittata (Boheman, 1855) sec. Sekerka, 2016

References

  • BOHEMAN C. H. 1855: Monographia Cassididarum. Tomus Tertius. Officina Norstedtiana, Holmiae, 543 pp. + 1 pl.
  • BOROWIEC L. 2005: Six new species of the genus Agroiconota Spaeth, 1913 (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cassidinae), with a key to the genus. Annales Zoologici (Warszawa) 55: 61 - 74.