Eupetale
| Eupetale | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Polyphaga |
| Infraorder: | Cucujiformia |
| Family: | Chrysomelidae |
| Subfamily: | Eumolpinae |
| Tribe: | Eumolpini |
| Genus: | Eupetale Flowers, 2021[1] |
| Type species | |
| Lycaste trichoa | |
Eupetale is a genus of leaf beetles in the subfamily Eumolpinae. It contains two species known from South America.[1]
The original name used for this genus was Lycaste, established by Gistel in 1848 as a replacement name for Chalcophana, which was later found to be unnecessary. Additionally, Gistel himself had first used Lycaste in 1834 for a jewel beetle genus (today a synonym of Polycesta), and Agassiz had used Lycaste in 1846 to emend Savigny's 1816 amphipod crustacean genus name Lycesta (a synonym of Leucothoe today).[3]
In 2021, Flowers proposed a new name for the genus, Eupetale, for the two species formerly placed in Gistel's Lycaste.[1] Under the name Lycaste, Callicolaspis was formerly considered a synonym of the genus, but in 2003 Callicolaspis was restored as a separate genus.[4]
Species
[edit]The genus contains only two species:[4][1]
- Eupetale eumolpoides (Lefèvre, 1877)[5] – Peru, Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, Argentina
- Eupetale trichoa (Gistel, 1848) (= Prionodera metallica Jacoby, 1884) – Brazil
References
[edit]- 1 2 3 4 Flowers, R.W. (2021). "A New Genus for Two Orphaned Species of Lycaste Gistel (Coleoptera: Chryssomelidae: Eumolpinae)". The Coleopterists Bulletin. 75 (3): 700–701. doi:10.1649/0010-065X-75.3.700. S2CID 245386230.
- ↑ Monrós, F.; Bechyné, J. (1956). "Uber einige verkannte Chrysomeliden-Namen" (PDF). Entomologischen Arbeiten aus dem Museum Georg Frey. 7: 1118–1137. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2018-10-27. Retrieved 2019-02-06.
- ↑ Bezděk, J. (2020). "Review of the genus-level names proposed by Johannes Gistel in Chrysomelidae (Coleoptera)". Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae. 60 (1): 173–188. doi:10.37520/aemnp.2020.011.
- 1 2 Flowers, R. W. (2003). "Notes on the genus Lycaste Gistl, and resurrection of Callicolaspis Bechyné (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Eumolpinae)". Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington. 105 (4): 925–932.
- ↑ Lefèvre, E. (1877). "Descriptions de coléoptères nouveaux ou peu connus de la famille des Eumolpides (1re partie)". Annales de la Société Entomologique de France. 5. 7: 115–166.