Tituboea laticollis (Olivier 1808)
- Dataset
- Identity of species-group taxa of the Western Palaearctic Clytrini (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) described by Maurice Pic and Louis Kocher
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Arthropoda
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Coleoptera
- family
- Chrysomelidae
- genus
- Tituboea
- species
- Tituboea laticollis
description
(Figs 32 – 34, 175, 181, 185)
discussion
Comments. The type material of T. laticollis was not examined and its deposition is unknown to us. However, var. subjuncta is conspeciħc with T. laticollis in its widely accepted concept (e. g. LACORDAIRE 1848; REGALIN & MEDVEDEV 2010 b; WARCHA Ł OWSKI 2003, 2010).
distribution
Distribution. Algeria, Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia (REGALIN & MEDVEDEV 2010 b).
materials_examined
Type localities. Clytra laticollis: ‘ côte de Barbarie’ [= North African coast from Morocco to Libya]. Tituboea laticollis var. subjuncta: ‘ Tunisie: Gafsa’. Type material examined. Clytra laticollis: not examined. Tituboea laticollis var. subjuncta: SYNTYPE: 1 ♂, ‘ Gafsa [w, h] // Type [w, h] // v. subjuncta Pic [w, h] // TYPE [r, p] ’ (MNHN – coll. Pic); 1 ♀, ‘ Gafsa / (Bome) [w, h] // Type [w, h] // TYPE [r, p] ’ (MNHN – coll. Pic). Additional material examined. TUNISIA: Gafsa env., 27. vi. 1976, 2 ♂♂ 1 ♀, Mager & Mühle leg. (HKCH); 8 km SE of Gafsa-oued, 29. – 30. v. 1993, 1 ♂, J. Batelka leg. (FKCC); Monastir, 14. - 20. vi. 2009, 1 ♂ 1 ♀, K. Orszulik leg. (JBCB).