Aulacothorax
Aulacothorax is a genus of flea beetles in the family Chrysomelidae. There are currently 51 described species in Aulacothorax found worldwide, 40 of which are found in the Indomalayan realm.[1][2]
| Aulacothorax | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Infraorder: | Cucujiformia |
| Superfamily: | Chrysomeloidea |
| Family: | Chrysomelidae |
| Subfamily: | Galerucinae |
| Tribe: | Alticini |
| Genus: | Aulacothorax Boheman, 1858 |
| Type species | |
| Aulacothorax exilis Boheman, 1858 | |
| Synonyms | |
| |
The genus was originally created in 1858 for a single species described from Tahiti, Aulacothorax exilis, which was placed in Scydmaenidae (now considered a subfamily of Staphylinidae). Recently, the holotype of this species was rediscovered in the collections of the Swedish Museum of Natural History, and it was found to belong to the flea beetle genus Orthaltica. Aulacothorax is the earliest available name for the genus, so the genus Orthaltica was formally placed in synonymy with it in 2017.[3]
Aulacothorax has historically been difficult to place within either of Alticini or Galerucinae sensu stricto (or Galerucini in some classifications). A recent phylogenetic study suggested that Aulacothorax should be separated from Alticini and classified within its own tribe, Serraticollini.[1]
Selected species
- Aulacothorax arabicus (Medvedev, 1997)
- Aulacothorax australis (Konstantinov, 1995)
- Aulacothorax bakeri (Konstantinov, 1995)
- Aulacothorax borneoensis (Konstantinov, 1995)
- Aulacothorax chibi (Takizawa, 2017)
- Aulacothorax coomani (Laboissiere, 1933)
- Aulacothorax copalinus (Fabricius, 1801)
- Aulacothorax exilis Boheman, 1858
- Aulacothorax kirejtshuki (Konstantinov, 1995)
- Aulacothorax konstantinovi (Takizawa, 2017)
- Aulacothorax melinus (Horn, 1889) (poison ivy leaf beetle)
- Aulacothorax mindanaoensis (Konstantinov, 1995)
- Aulacothorax minutiusculus (Csiki, 1939)
- Aulacothorax okinawanus (Gressitt and Kimoto, 1966)
- Aulacothorax orientalis (Konstantinov, 1995)
- Aulacothorax pahangi (Konstantinov, 1995)
- Aulacothorax parkeri (B. White, 1942)
- Aulacothorax rangoonensis (Konstantinov, 1995)
- Aulacothorax rata (Takizawa, 2017)
- Aulacothorax recticollis (J. L. LeConte, 1861)
- Aulacothorax sabahcola (Takizawa, 2017)
- Aulacothorax schereri (Takizawa, 2017)
- Aulacothorax syzygium (Prathapan & Konstantinov, 2013)
- Aulacothorax terminalia (Prathapan & Konstantinov, 2013)
- Aulacothorax tuberculatus (Takizawa, 2017)
- Aulacothorax visayanensis (Konstantinov, 1995)
References
- Douglas, H.B.; Konstantinov, A.S.; Brunke, A.J.; Moseyko, A.G.; Chapados, J.T.; Eyres, J.; Richter, R.; Savard, K.; Sears, E.; Prathapan, K.D.; Ruan, Y.; Dettman, J.R. (2023). "Phylogeny of the flea beetles (Galerucinae: Alticini) and the position of Aulacothorax elucidated through anchored phylogenomics (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Alticini)". Systematic Entomology. Early View: 1–26. doi:10.1111/syen.12582.
- "Orthaltica Crotch, 1873". www.zin.ru. Retrieved 2022-11-24.
- Bezděk, J.; Konstantinov, A.S. (2017). "Forgotten Aulacothorax Boheman, 1858, a Senior Synonym of Orthaltica Crotch, 1873 (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae: Alticini)". The Coleopterists Bulletin. 71 (4): 791–795. doi:10.1649/0010-065X-71.4.791. S2CID 91078620.