Rhodopaea
Rhodopaea (or Gruevia) is a genus of leaf beetles in the subfamily Eumolpinae.[3] It originally contained only one species, Rhodopaea angelovi, which is paleoendemic to the western Rhodopes of Bulgaria.[4] In 2019, a second species, Rhodopaea heinzi, was described from northwestern Anatolia in Turkey.[5]
| Rhodopaea | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Infraorder: | Cucujiformia |
| Family: | Chrysomelidae |
| Subfamily: | Eumolpinae |
| Tribe: | Bromiini |
| Genus: | Rhodopaea Gruev & Tomov, 1968[1] |
| Type species | |
| Rhodopaea angelovi Gruev & Tomov, 1968[1] | |
| Synonyms | |
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Gruevia Warchałowski, 1974[2] | |
Taxonomy
The genus Rhodopaea and the type species, R. angelovi, were originally described by Bulgarian entomologists Blagoy Gruev and Vassil Tomov in 1968. In 1974, Warchałowski suggested the generic name Gruevia, believing the name Rhodopaea to be preoccupied by a butterfly genus of the same name described by Achille Guenée in 1845. The name of the type species would therefore be Gruevia angelovi. However, it turned out the genus described by Guenée was actually called Rhodophaea, which was misspelled as Rhodopaea by Bytinski-Salz in 1938. Therefore, Rhodopaea angelovi remains the valid name for the type species.[6]
References
- Gruev, B.; Tomov, V. (1968). "Novii rod i vid zhuka listoeda Rhodopaea angelovi, gen. et sp. n. (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae) iz Bolgarii". Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie. 47: 553–555.
- Warchałowski, A. (1974). "Übersicht der Blattkäfer Bulgariens (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae)". Polskie Pismo Entomologiczne. 44: 473–542.
- Moseyko, A. G.; Sprecher-Uebersax, E. (2010). "Eumolpinae". In Löbl, I.; Smetana, A. (eds.). Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera. Volume 6. Chrysomeloidea. Stenstrup, Denmark: Apollo Books. pp. 619–643. ISBN 978-87-88757-84-2.
- Gruev, B.; Tomov, V. (2007). Zoocartographia Bulcanica. Volume 3. Distributional Atlas & Catalogue of the Leaf Beetles of Bulgaria: (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae). Sofia–Moscow: Pensoft Publishers. ISBN 978-95-46422-71-2.
- Kippenberg, Horst (2019). "Rhodopaea heinzi sp.n. aus Anatolien (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Eumolpinae)" (PDF). Koleopterologische Rundschau. 89: 321–324.
- Бечев, Димитър (2019-01-06). "Основни принципи на биологическата систематика. Електронно издание, версия 1.3" [Basic principles of biological systematics. Electronic edition, version 1.3] (PDF) (in Bulgarian). p. 13. Retrieved 8 September 2019.