Clytra ( Clytraria ) jacobsoni Semenov, 1903

Clytra ( Clytraria) jacobsoni Semenov, 1903

Clytra opaca Jakobson, 1898: 191 (original description, primary homonym, nec Clythra opaca Rosenhauer, 1856 , now in Otiocephala ).

Clythra jacobsoni Semenov, 1903: 173 (new substitute name for C. opaca Jakobson ).

Clytra bucharica Pic, 1915: 5 (original description).

Clytra bucharica var. notatithorax Pic, 1915: 5 (original description).

Type localities. Clytra opaca : ‘Bucharia or.: Baldschuan et Muminabad prope Kuldjab [= Boldzhuan and Leningradsky near Kulob, Tajikistan]’. Clytra bucharica : ‘Bucharie’. Clytra bucharica var. notatithorax : ‘Bucharie’.

Type material examined. Clytra opaca : SYNTYPES: 1 ♂, ‘ Clytra / opaca / TYPE Jacob [w, h] // Clytra opaca / typ Jacobs. 98 [h] / G. Jacobson det. [w, p] // [Mubinabad, Kulyaba, Bukhara, Regel, 84] [in Russian, w, p] // TYPE [r, p] // Museum Paris [p] / Clavareau / C. opaca J. [w, h] // PARALECTOTYPE [r, p]’ ( MNHN – coll. generale); 1 spec. unsexed, ‘Kuljab / Buchara or. / Regel [w, h] // Kuljab / Buchara or. / Regel 84 [w, h] // Clytra opaca / Typ G. Jacobs. [h] / G. Jacobson det. [w, p] // Typus [w, p] // Clytra / opaca Jacobs. / L. Medvedev det. [w, h]’ (ZMHB).

Clytra bucharica : SYNTYPE: 1 ♀, ‘ Boukharie-Est / Ch. Barstchewski / Eté 1891 [w, p] // Type [w, h] // bucharica / Pic [w, h] // TYPE [r, p] // Museum Paris [p] / Pic [w, h]’ ( MNHN – coll. generale).

Clytra bucharica var. notatithorax : SYNTYPES: 1 ♂, ‘ Boukharie-Est / Ch. Barstchewski / Eté 1891 [w, p] // Type [w, h] // TYPE [r, p] // v.notatithorax / Pic [w, h] // v. notatithorax Pic [b, h] // Cl. sp. [w, h] // Museum Paris [p] / Pic [w, h]’ ( MNHN – coll. generale); 1 ♂, ‘ Boukharie-Est / Ch. Barstchewski / Eté 1891 [w, p] // Type [w, h] // Museum Paris [p] / Pic [w, h] // TYPE [r, p]’ ( MNHN – coll. generale).

Distribution. Afghanistan, Iran, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan ( REGALIN & MEDVEDEV 2010b).

Comments. Clytrabucharica was already synonymized with C. jacobsoni by MEDVEDEV (1962). We conħrm both C. bucharica (with completely orange pronotum) and C. bucharica var. notatithorax (with a pair of very small dark spots on pronotum) as synonyms of C. jacobsoni .

One syntype of C. opaca Jakobson, 1898 deposited in MNHN bears the red label ‘PARA-LECTOTYPE’, probably added by the late Michel Rapilly or the late Nicole Berti. Because the designation of lectotype of C. opaca has never been published, we treat this specimen as a syntype.