Genus of leaf beetles from Central and South America
Nodocolaspis is a genus of leaf beetles in the subfamily Eumolpinae . It is known from Central America and South America .[ 2] The genus was first established by the Czech entomologist Jan Bechyné in 1949, as a relative of Nodonota (now known as Brachypnoea ) containing species formerly placed in Colaspis .[ 1]
Species
The following species are included in Nodocolaspis :
Nodocolaspis antennalis Bechyné , 1953[ 2]
Nodocolaspis colombica (Jacoby , 1900) [ 3] [ 4]
Nodocolaspis costipennis (Lefèvre , 1877) [ 5]
Nodocolaspis costipennis cayennensis Bechyné , 1955[ 6]
Nodocolaspis costipennis costipennis (Lefèvre , 1877)
Nodocolaspis femoralis (Lefèvre , 1878) [ 2]
Nodocolaspis impressa (Lefèvre , 1877) [ 5] [ 4]
Nodocolaspis multicostata (Jacoby , 1900) [ 3]
Nodocolaspis paulistana Bechyné , 1953[ 2]
Nodocolaspis quadrifoveata (Bowditch, 1921) [ 7] [ 8]
Nodocolaspis rugulosa Bechyné , 1953[ 2]
Nodocolaspis smaragdina Bechyné & Bechyné, 1964[ 9]
Nodocolaspis tarsata (Lefèvre , 1882)
Nodocolaspis tarsata acallosa (Bechyné , 1949)
Nodocolaspis tarsata tarsata (Lefèvre , 1882)
Nodocolaspis tuberculata Bechyné , 1953[ 2]
The type species, N. costipennis , was originally described as "Colaspis costipennis " by Lefèvre in 1877, which makes the name a junior homonym of Colaspis costipennis Crotch , 1873; however, Jan Bechyné considered it worthless to correct the homonymy after having established a new genus for the Lefèvre species.[ 10] Separately, Doris Holmes Blake renamed the Lefèvre species to "Colaspis lophodes " in 1974.[ 11]
The generic placement of the Central American species N. femoralis and N. impressa is uncertain; they were transferred to Nodocolaspis from Colaspis by Jan Bechyné in 1953 and 1958, but Flowers (1996) disagreed with the validity of the transfers and included them in Colaspis , where they have been traditionally placed.[ 12] [ 13]
References
^ a b Bechyné, J. (1949). "Liste provisoire des Eumolpides de la République Argentine et observations diverses sur les Eumolpides de l'Amérique du Sud (Col., Chrysomeloidea)" (PDF) . Acta Zoologica Lilloana . 8 : 457– 535.
^ a b c d e f Bechyné, J. (1953). "Katalog der neotropischen Eumolpiden (Col. Phytoph. Chrysomeloidea)" . Entomologische Arbeiten aus dem Museum G. Frey (in German). 4 : 26– 303.
^ a b Jacoby, M. (1900). "Descriptions of New Species and a New Genus of South American Eumolpidæ, with Remarks on some of the Genera" . Transactions of the Entomological Society of London . 48 (4): 453– 510. doi :10.1111/j.1365-2311.1900.tb02719.x .
^ a b Bechyné, J. (1958). "Notes sur les Chrysomeloidea néotropicaux des collections du Musée Zoologique de l'Université et de la ville de Strasbourg (Col. Phytophaga)" (PDF) . Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de Mulhouse . mars/avril: 1– 2.
^ a b 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.
^ Bechyné, J. (1955). "Reise des Herrn G. Frey in Sudamerika: Eumolpidae" (PDF) . Entomologischen Arbeiten aus dem Museum G. Frey . 6 : 569– 657.
^ Bowditch, F. C. (1921). "South American Eumolpidæ, mostly of the group Colaspini" . The Entomologist . 54 : 72– 76.
^ Bechyné, J. (1958). "Notizen zu den neotropischen Chrysomeloidea (Col. Phytophaga)" . Entomologische Arbeiten aus dem Museum G. Frey Tutzing bei München . 9 : 478– 706.
^ Bechyné, J.; Springlovà de Bechyné, B. (1964). "Notes sur quelques Chrysomeloidea Neotropicaux (Coleoptera Phytophaga)" (PDF) . Revista de Facultad de Agronomía (Maracay) . 3 : 69– 123.
^ Bechyné, J. (1951). "Liste provisoire des Eumolpides de Bolivie et observations diverses sur les espèces de l'Amérique du Sud (Col. Phytophaga)" . Entomologische Arbeiten aus dem Museum G. Frey Tutzing bei München . 2 : 227– 352.
^ Blake, D. H. (1974). "The costate species of Colaspis in the United States (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae)" (PDF) . Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology (181): 1– 24. doi :10.5479/si.00810282.181 .
^ Flowers, R.W. (1996). "The subfamily Eumolpinae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) in Central America" . Revista de Biología Tropical Special Publication . 2 : 1– 59. Retrieved December 31, 2018 .
^ Van Roie, Martijn; De Wint, Frederik; Güngor, Ayse; Huyghe, Charlotte; Dekoninck, Wouter; Sekerka, Lukáš (2019). "An annotated checklist of the leaf beetles (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae) from El Salvador, with additions from the Bechyné collection in the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences" . ZooKeys (856): 137– 196. doi :10.3897/zookeys.856.32017 . PMC 6591217 . PMID 31258371 .