Colaspidea

Colaspidea is a genus of leaf beetles in the subfamily Eumolpinae. It is known from North America (California and the southwestern United States) and the Mediterranean. It has recently been suggested that the Mediterranean species of Colaspidea are a sister genus to Chalcosicya, and that Colaspina forms a sister genus to the former two combined. It has also been suggested that the North American species of Colaspidea may represent a separate genus.[4]

Colaspidea
Colaspidea oblonga
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Family:	Chrysomelidae
Subfamily:	Eumolpinae
Tribe:	Bromiini
Genus:	Colaspidea Laporte, 1833[1]
Type species
Chrysomela aeruginea (= Chrysomela metallica Rossi, 1790) Fabricius, 1792
Synonyms[2][3]
Plestya Gistel, 1848 Dia Dejean, 1836

The North American species of Colaspidea have wings, while the Mediterranean species are wingless.[4][2]

Species

There are 19 described species in the genus Colaspidea:[2][5][6][7][8]

Mediterranean species:[2]

• Colaspidea algarvensis Zoia, 2014[2]
• Colaspidea confinis Zoia, 2014[2]
• Colaspidea dogueti Zoia, 2014[2]
• Colaspidea globosa (Küster, 1848) ^g
• Colaspidea graeca Zoia, 2014[2]
• Colaspidea grossa Fairmaire, 1866 ^g
• Colaspidea incerta Zoia, 2014[2]
• Colaspidea inflata Lefèvre, 1876
• Colaspidea juengeri Doguet, 1988 (formerly a subspecies of C. metallica)
• Colaspidea maghrebina Zoia, 2014[2]
• Colaspidea maura Zoia, 2014[2]
• Colaspidea metallica (Rossi, 1790) ^g
• Colaspidea oblonga (Blanchard, 1845) ^g (synonyms: C. nitida H. Lucas, 1846; C. oblonga (Fairmaire, 1862); C. oblonga albanica Schatzmayr, 1923)[9]
• Colaspidea ovulum Fairmaire, 1866
• Colaspidea pallidipes Zoia, 2014[2]
• Colaspidea proxima (Fairmaire, 1862) ^g

North American species:

• Colaspidea pallipes Fall, 1933 ^{i c g}
• Colaspidea pomonae Fall, 1933 ^{i c g}
• Colaspidea smaragdula (LeConte, 1857) ^{i c g b}

Data sources: i = ITIS,[5] c = Catalogue of Life,[6] g = GBIF,[7] b = BugGuide[8]

References

1. Laporte, F. L. N. de Caumont (1833). "Mémoire sur les divisions du genre Colaspis". Revue Entomologique. 1: 18–25.
2. Zoia, S. (2014). "The Mediterranean Colaspidea (Coleoptera Chrysomelidae Eumolpinae)". Entomologia. 2 (1): 1–34. doi:10.4081/entomologia.2014.159.
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. Flowers, R. Wills (2012). "Chalcosicya maya n. sp, a new Mexican species (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Eumolpinae) and its implications for morphology and biogeography". Insecta Mundi (209): 1–9.
5. "Colaspidea Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-05-01.
6. "Browse Colaspidea". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2018-05-01.
7. "Colaspidea". GBIF. Retrieved 2018-05-01.
8. "Colaspidea Genus Information". BugGuide. Retrieved 2018-05-01.
9. Zoia, S. (2017). "Synonymic note on Colaspidea oblonga (Blanchard, 1845) and Colaspidea nitida Lucas, 1846 (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae, Eumolpinae)" (PDF). Arquivos Entomolóxicos. 17: 423–424.

Further reading

• 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

• Media related to Colaspidea at Wikimedia Commons