Beltia

Beltia is a genus of leaf beetles in the subfamily Eumolpinae. It is known from the Neotropical realm. It was first erected by Martin Jacoby in 1881 for a single species from Nicaragua. In 2018, it was redefined to include fourteen new species from Central America and northwestern South America, as well as four species transferred from Colaspoides.[2]

Beltia
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Infraorder: Cucujiformia
Family: Chrysomelidae
Subfamily: Eumolpinae
Tribe: Eumolpini
Genus: Beltia
Jacoby, 1881[1]
Type species
Beltia nicaraguensis
Jacoby, 1881

Species
  • Beltia angustomarginata (Bechyné, 1953)[3] – central Panama
  • Beltia awapita Flowers, 2018[2] – northwestern Ecuador
  • Beltia chiriquensis (Jacoby, 1882)[1] – central Costa Rica to eastern Panama
  • Beltia confusa Flowers, 2018[2] – Amazonian Peru
  • Beltia gorgona Flowers, 2018[2] – Pacific coast of Colombia
  • Beltia herreri Flowers, 2018[2] – northwestern Costa Rica, northwestern Panama
  • Beltia ledesmae Flowers, 2018[2] – Ecuador west of the Andes
  • Beltia napoensis Flowers, 2018[2] – Ecuador, Peru, Colombia (collected along the Napo River)
  • Beltia nicaraguensis Jacoby, 1881[1] – southern Nicaragua, northern Costa Rica
  • Beltia osa Flowers, 2018[2] – Costa Rica–Panama border
  • Beltia placidula (Bechyné, 1950)[4] – Amazonian region of northern Peru
  • Beltia rugosa Flowers, 2018[2] – Pacific coast of Colombia
  • Beltia sanchezae Flowers, 2018[2] – Costa Rica (Cordillera de Talamanca)
  • Beltia talaga Flowers, 2018[2] – eastern slope of the Ecuadorian Andes
  • Beltia tilarana Flowers, 2018[2] – Costa Rica (Cordillera de Tilarán)
  • Beltia tisingalita Flowers, 2018[2] – Costa Rica–Panama border (Cordillera de Talamanca)
  • Beltia tsachila Flowers, 2018[2] – western slope of the Ecuadorian Andes
  • Beltia vacilona Flowers, 2018[2] – Costa Rica
  • Beltia weyrauchi (Bechyné, 1950)[4] – eastern Peruvian Andes

References
  1. Jacoby, M. (1881). "Eumolpidae". Insecta. Coleoptera. Biologia Centrali-Americana. Vol. 6. pp. 105–187.
  2. Flowers, R. Wills (2018). "A review of the genus Beltia Jacoby (Chrysomelidae: Eumolpinae: Eumolpini), with descriptions of fourteen new species from Costa Rica, Panama, and northwestern South America". Insecta Mundi (672): 1–43.
  3. Bechyné, J. (1953). "Katalog der neotropischen Eumolpiden (Col. Phytoph. Chrysomeloidea)". Entomologische Arbeiten aus dem Museum G. Frey (in German). 4: 26–303.
  4. Bechyné, J. (1950). "Eumolpides Américains nouveaux ou peu connus" (PDF). Entomologischen Arbeiten aus dem Museum G. Frey. 1: 205–238. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2018-09-23. Retrieved 2018-12-21.


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