Entomoscelis
| Entomoscelis | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Entomoscelis americana | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Polyphaga |
| Infraorder: | Cucujiformia |
| Family: | Chrysomelidae |
| Tribe: | Chrysomelini |
| Genus: | Entomoscelis Chevrolat in Dejean, 1836[1] |
| Type species | |
| Chrysomela adonidis Pallas, 1771 | |
Entomoscelis is a genus of leaf beetles in the family Chrysomelidae. There are about 12 described species in Entomoscelis.[2][3][4][5] The genus has a Holarctic distribution. Adults have red elytra with black markings.[6]
Species
[edit]These 12 species belong to the genus Entomoscelis:[5]
- Entomoscelis adonidis (Pallas, 1771)
- Entomoscelis adonidis adonidis (Pallas, 1771) – Distribution: from Portugal to Russian Far East and the north-western part of North America (western Canada and western USA); includes the former Entomoscelis americana
- Entomoscelis adonidis caucasica Kippenberg, 2020 – Distribution: Armenia, Georgia, Iran, Russia, Turkey
- Entomoscelis adonidis goliath Abeille de Perrin, 1897 – Distribution: Southeastern Turkey
- Entomoscelis berytensis (Reiche & Saulcy, 1858) – Distribution: Armenia, Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Jordan, Iraq, Iran, Egypt (?)
- Entomoscelis cornea Abeille de Perrin, 1897 – Distribution: North Africa, from Morocco to Libya
- Entomoscelis deserticola Lopatin, 1967 – Distribution: China
- Entomoscelis dorsalis (Fabricius, 1777)
- Entomoscelis dorsalis bashkiriae Kippenberg, 2020 – Distribution: Russia (Bashkortostan)
- Entomoscelis dorsalis dorsalis (Fabricius, 1777) – Distribution: Austria, Slovakia, Hungary, Greece (?)
- Entomoscelis dorsalis hammarstroemi Jacobson, 1901 – Distribution: Russia (southern Siberia)
- Entomoscelis dorsalis iranica Kippenberg, 2020 – Distribution: Northern Iran (Tehran Province)
- Entomoscelis dorsalis turkestana Mikhailov, 2020 – Distribution: Kazakhstan
- Entomoscelis erythrocnema Jacobson, 1893 – Distribution: Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, northern Afghanistan
- Entomoscelis nigriventris Daccordi & Yang, 2009 – Distribution: China
- Entomoscelis orientalis Motschulsky, 1860 – Distribution: China
- Entomoscelis pilula Lopatin, 1967 – Distribution: Caucasus and Central Asia
- Entomoscelis pulla Daccordi & Ge, 2009 – Distribution: China
- Entomoscelis rumex Kippenberg, 2020 (replacement name for Entomoscelis rumicis (Fabricius, 1787)) – Distribution: North Africa (Maghreb), Spain (?)
- Entomoscelis sacra (Linnaeus, 1758) – Distribution: Romania, Moldova, North Macedonia, Bulgaria, Greece, Ukraine, Crimea, Russia (Udmurtia), Georgia, Armenia, Turkey, Syria, Israel, Jordan, Iraq, Iran
Formerly included species:
- Entomoscelis americana Brown, 1942 (red turnip beetle): synonym of Entomoscelis adonidis (Pallas, 1771)
- Entomoscelis occidentalis Escalera, 1914: synonym of Entomoscelis cornea Abeille de Perrin, 1897
- Entomoscelis suturalis Weise, 1882: synonym of Entomoscelis sacra (Linnaeus, 1758)
The name Entomoscelis melanostoma (Gmelin, 1790) is considered a nomen dubium.
References
[edit]- ↑ Bousquet, Yves; Bouchard, Patrice (2013). "The genera in the second catalogue (1833–1836) of Dejean's Coleoptera collection". ZooKeys (282): 1–219. Bibcode:2013ZooK..282....1B. doi:10.3897/zookeys.282.4401. PMC 3677338. PMID 23794836.
- ↑ "Entomoscelis Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
- ↑ "Entomoscelis". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
- ↑ "Entomoscelis genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
- 1 2 Kippenberg, H.; Mikhailov, Yu.E. (2020). "Contribution to the knowledge of Entomoscelis adonidis (Pallas, 1771) and allied species (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Chrysomelinae)" (PDF). Koleopterologische Rundschau. 90: 257–290.
- ↑ Gerber, George H. (1994). "Biology of Entomoscelis Chevrolat". In Jolivet, P.H.; Cox, M.L.; Petitpierre, E. (eds.). Novel aspects of the biology of Chrysomelidae. Series Entomologica. Dordrecht: Springer. pp. 549–553. doi:10.1007/978-94-011-1781-4_4.
Further reading
[edit]- Flinte, V.; Abejanella, A.; Daccordi, M.; Monteiro, R. F.; et al. (2017). "Chrysomelinae species (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae) and new biological data from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In: Chaboo CS, Schmitt M (Eds) Research on Chrysomelidae 7". ZooKeys (720): 5–22. doi:10.3897/zookeys.720.13963. PMC 5784215. PMID 29391849.
- Riley, Edward G.; Clark, Shawn M.; Seeno, Terry N. (2003). Catalog of the leaf beetles of America north of Mexico (Coleoptera: Megalopodidae, Orsodacnidae and Chrysomelidae, excluding Bruchinae). Special Publication No. 1. The Coleopterists' Society. ISBN 978-0-9726087-1-8.
- Lobl, I.; Smetana, A., eds. (2013). Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera, Volume 6: Chrysomeloidea. Apollo Books. ISBN 978-90-04-26091-7.
External links
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