Eupetale

Eupetale is a genus of leaf beetles in the subfamily Eumolpinae. It contains two species known from South America.[1]

Eupetale
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Infraorder: Cucujiformia
Family: Chrysomelidae
Subfamily: Eumolpinae
Tribe: Eumolpini
Genus: Eupetale
Flowers, 2021[1]
Type species
Lycaste trichoa
Gistel, 1848[2]

The original name used for this genus was Lycaste Gistel, 1848, which was later found to be an unnecessary new replacement name for Chalcophana. Additionally, Lycaste Gistel, 1848 is a junior homonym of Lycaste Gistel, 1834 in Buprestidae (a synonym of Polycesta), and Lycaste Agassiz, 1846 in Crustacea (an emendation of Lycesta Savigny, 1816, which is a synonym of Leucothoe).[3] In 2021, Flowers proposed a new name for the genus, Eupetale, for the two species formerly placed in Lycaste Gistel, 1848.[1] Under the name Lycaste, Callicolaspis was formerly considered a synonym of the genus, but in 2003 Callicolaspis was restored as a separate genus.[4]

Species

The genus contains only two species:[4][1]

  • Eupetale eumolpoides (Lefèvre, 1877)[5]
  • Eupetale trichoa (Gistel, 1848) (Synonym: Prionodera metallica Jacoby, 1884)

References


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