Adorea (beetle)

Adorea is a genus of leaf beetles in the subfamily Eumolpinae. It contains seven species, which are found in Central America and northern South America.[2][4]

Adorea
Adorea splendida
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Infraorder: Cucujiformia
Family: Chrysomelidae
Subfamily: Eumolpinae
Tribe: Eumolpini
Genus: Adorea
Lefèvre, 1877[1]
Type species
Adorea speciosa
Lefèvre, 1877
Synonyms[2]

Species

The genus contains seven species:

  • Adorea bifasciata (Jacoby, 1881)[5][4] – Panama
  • Adorea chontalensis (Jacoby, 1881)[5] – Nicarauga
  • Adorea cruentata (Lefèvre, 1877)[1] – Guatemala, Colombia, Venezuela
  • Adorea elegans (Jacoby, 1878) – Colombia, Ecuador
  • Adorea splendida (Jacoby, 1881)[5] – Costa Rica, Panama
  • Adorea speciosa Lefèvre, 1877[1] – Ecuador
  • Adorea strongylioides (Bechyné, 1950)[6] – Costa Rica

References
  1. 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.
  2. Bechyné, J. (1953). "Katalog der neotropischen Eumolpiden (Col. Phytoph. Chrysomeloidea)". Entomologische Arbeiten aus dem Museum G. Frey (in German). 4: 26–303.
  3. 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.
  4. Flowers, R.W. (1996). "The subfamily Eumolpinae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) in Central America". Revista de Biología Tropical Special Publication. 2: 1–59. Archived from the original on January 1, 2019. Retrieved December 31, 2018.
  5. Jacoby, M. (1881). "Eumolpidae". Insecta. Coleoptera. Biologia Centrali-Americana. Vol. 6. pp. 105–187.
  6. Bechyné, J. (1950). "Les générotypes des Eumolpides de l'Amérique du Sud et du Centre avec les diagnoses des formes nouvelles (Col. Phytoph. Chrysomeloidea)". Mitteilungen der Münchner Entomologischen Gesellschaft. 40: 264–292.


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