Alethaxius

Alethaxius is a genus of leaf beetles in the subfamily Eumolpinae. It is distributed from Mexico to northern South America, and it is also found in the West Indies.[3] The genus was originally named Aletes by Félicien Chapuis in 1874. However, this name was preoccupied by Aletes Carpenter, 1857 (in Mollusca), so the genus was renamed to Alethaxius by Édouard Lefèvre in 1885.[1] According to Flowers (1996), it is very likely that Alethaxius is polyphyletic and represents at least three different genera.[4]

Alethaxius
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Chrysomelidae
Subfamily: Eumolpinae
Genus: Alethaxius
Lefèvre, 1885[1]
Type species
Aletes angulicollis
Chapuis, 1874
Synonyms

Aletes Chapuis, 1874
(nec Carpenter, 1857)
[2]

Species

Synonyms:

  • Alethaxius brevis Lefèvre, 1889: Moved to Dryadomolpus[16]
  • Alethaxius columbicus Jacoby, 1901: Moved to Rhabdocolaspis[13]

References

  1. Lefèvre, É. (1885). "Eumolpidarum hucusque cognitarum catalogus, sectionum conspectu systematico, generum sicut et specierum nonnullarum novarum descriptionibus adjunctis". Mémoires de la Société Royale des Sciences de Liège. 2. 11 (16): 1–172.
  2. Chapuis, F. (1874). "Tome dixième. Famille des phytophages". In Lacordaire, J.T.; Chapuis, F. (eds.). Histoire naturelle des Insectes. Genera des coléoptères. Paris: Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret. pp. i–iv, 1–455.
  3. Bechyné, J. (1953). "Katalog der neotropischen Eumolpiden (Col. Phytoph. Chrysomeloidea)". Entomologische Arbeiten aus dem Museum G. Frey (in German). 4: 26–303.
  4. 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.
  5. Blake, D. H. (1947). "New eumolpid beetles from the West Indies". Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences. 37 (9): 310–312.
  6. Bowditch, F. C. (1921). "South American Eumolpidæ, mostly of the group Colaspini". The Entomologist. 54: 214–216.
  7. Blake, D. H (1949). "Notes on some West Indian Chrysomelidae". Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences. 39 (11): 367–371. JSTOR 24531327.
  8. Lefèvre, E. (1891). "Descriptions d'espèces nouvelles de Clytrides et d'Eumolpides". Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique. 35: CCXLVIII–CCLXXIX.
  9. Bechyné, J. (1957). "Les Chrysomeloidea néotropicaus des collections du Muséum Zool. de l'Université á Helsingfors" (PDF). Notulae Entomologicae. 37: 53–57.
  10. Blake, D. H. (1945). "Six new species of beetles of a eumolpid genus new to the West Indies". Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences. 35 (10): 323–327. JSTOR 24531081.
  11. Bechyné, J. (1958). "Notizen zu den neotropischen Chrysomeloidea (Col. Phytophaga)" (PDF). Entomologischen Arbeiten aus dem Museum G. Frey. 9: 478–706.
  12. Blake, D. H. (1968). "Ten new chrysomelid beetles from Dominica and Jamaica". Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington. 70 (1): 60–67.
  13. Bechyné, J. (1955). "Reise des Herrn G. Frey in Sudamerika: Eumolpidae" (PDF). Entomologischen Arbeiten aus dem Museum G. Frey. 6: 569–657.
  14. Bechyné, J. (1950). "Nuovi Eumolpidi Sud - Americani" (PDF). Memorie del Museo Civico di Storie naturale di Verona. 2: 99–106.
  15. Blake, D. H. (1946). "Seven new species of West Indian Chrysomelidae (Coleoptera)". Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington. 48 (5): 111–119.
  16. Bechyné, J. (1997). Savini, V. (ed.). "Evaluación de los datos sobre los Phytophaga dañinos en Venezuela (Coleoptera). Parte I" (PDF). Boletín de Entomología Venezolana. Serie Monografias. 1: 1–278.


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