Timarcha apricaria melitensis

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Chrysomeloidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Pancrustacea Cladus: Allotriocarida Subphylum: Hexapoda Classis: Insecta Cladus: Dicondylia Subclassis: Pterygota Infraclassis: Neoptera Cladus: Eumetabola Cladus: Holometabola Superordo: Coleopterida Ordo: Coleoptera Subordo: Polyphaga Infraordo: Cucujiformia Cladus: Phytophaga Superfamilia: Chrysomeloidea

Familia: Chrysomelidae
Subfamilia: Chrysomelinae
Tribus: Timarchini
Genus: Timarcha
Subgenus: Timarcha (Timarcha)
Species: Timarcha apricaria
Subspecies: Timarcha apricaria melitensis

Name

Timarcha apricaria melitensis Weise, 1882

Lectotype: ZMHB. ♀. “meliten- / sis * [h by Weise, w] // Type [r] // Zool. Mus. / Berlin [p, w] // LECTOTYPUS [p] / Timarcha / melitensis Weise [h] / Daccordi et Vela des. 2017 [p, r] // Timarcha / apricaria Waltl [h] / Daccordi et Vela det. 2017 [p, w]”. (designated by Vela & Daccordi, 2022)

Type locality: “Malta [Portugal?, see Jolivet, 1996: 206; wrong type locality]”.

Synonymy

• Timarcha melitensis Weise, 1882: 318
• Timarcha riffensis Fairmaire, 1888: cxciii [syn.: Vela & Daccordi, 2022: 7]
  • Lectotype: MNHN, coll. Fairmaire. ♂. “TYPE [p red ink, w] // LECTOTYPUS [p] / Timarcha / riffensis Fairmaire [h] / Daccordi et Vela des. 2017 [p, r] // Timarcha / apricaria Waltl [h] / Daccordi et Vela det. 2017 [p, w]”. (designated by Vela & Daccordi, 2022)
  • Paralectotype: MNHN, coll. Fairmaire. 1♀: “Timarcha / Riffensis / Fairm / maroc [h by Fairmaire] // 33 [h] // TYPE [p in red, w] // PARALECTOTYPUS [p] / Timarcha / riffensis Fairmaire [h] / Daccordi et Vela des. 2017 [p, r] // Timarcha / apricaria Waltl [h] / Daccordi et Vela det. 2017 [p, w]”.
  • Type locality: “Montagnes du Riff [Morocco]”.
• Timarcha apricaria melitensis: Vela & Daccordi, 2022: 7

References

Primary references

• Fairmaire, L. 1888 [1887]. Descriptions de deux nouvelles espèces de Coléoptères. Bulletin des Séances de la Société entomologique de France (6) 7: CXCII-CXCIII [192-193]. BHL
• Vela, J.M. & Daccordi, M. 2022. A study of the genus Timarcha Samouelle, 1819: the species from the South of the Iberian Peninsula (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae). Suplementos del Boletín de la Asociación Española de Entomología 3: 1–70. hdl: 10481/72692 . Reference page. 
• Weise, J. 1882. Chrysomelidae. Lieferung 2. Pp. 193–368. In: Naturgeschichte der Insecten Deutschlands. Erste Abteilung Coleoptera. Sechster Band. [1893]. Berlin: Nicolaische Verlags-Buchhandlung, xiv + 1161, 1 pl. [issued in parts]. BHL

Additional references

• Gómez-Zurita, J. & Kippenberg, H. 2010. Tribe Timarchini Motschulsky, 1860. Pp. 437–443. In: Löbl, I. & Smetana, A. (eds.) Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera. Volume 6. Chrysomeloidea. Apollo Books, Stenstrup, Denmark. 924 pp. ISBN 978-87-88757-84-2. Google Books. Reference page.