Eupetale
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Infraorder: Cucujiformia
Family: Chrysomelidae
Subfamily: Eumolpinae
Tribe: Eumolpini
Genus: Eupetale
Flowers, 2021[1]
Type species
Lycaste trichoa
Gistel, 1848[2]

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 Gistel, 1848, which was later found to be an unnecessary new replacement name for Chalcophana. Additionally, Lycaste Gistel, 1848 is a junior homonym of Lycaste Gistel, 1834 in Buprestidae (a synonym of Polycesta), and Lycaste Agassiz, 1846 in Crustacea (an emendation of Lycesta Savigny, 1816, which is a synonym of Leucothoe).[3] In 2021, Flowers proposed a new name for the genus, Eupetale, for the two species formerly placed in Lycaste Gistel, 1848.[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

The genus contains only two species:[4][1]

  • Eupetale eumolpoides (Lefèvre, 1877)[5]
  • Eupetale trichoa (Gistel, 1848) (Synonym: Prionodera metallica Jacoby, 1884)

References

  1. 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.
  2. ↑ Monrós, F.; Bechyné, J. (1956). "Uber einige verkannte Chrysomeliden-Namen" (PDF). Entomologischen Arbeiten aus dem Museum Georg Frey. 7: 1118–1137.
  3. ↑ 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.
  4. 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.
  5. ↑ 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.


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