Adorea (beetle) explained

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.^[1]

Species

The genus contains seven species:

• Adorea bifasciata (Jacoby, 1881)^{[2] [1]} – Panama
• Adorea chontalensis (Jacoby, 1881)^[2] – Nicarauga
• Adorea cruentata (Lefèvre, 1877) – Guatemala, Colombia, Venezuela
• Adorea elegans (Jacoby, 1878) – Colombia, Ecuador
• Adorea splendida (Jacoby, 1881)^[2] – Costa Rica, Panama
• Adorea speciosa Lefèvre, 1877 – Ecuador
• Adorea strongylioides (Bechyné, 1950)^[3] – Costa Rica

Notes and References

1. Flowers. R.W.. 1996. The subfamily Eumolpinae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) in Central America. Revista de Biología Tropical Special Publication. 2. 1–59. December 31, 2018. January 1, 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190101051715/http://www.sidalc.net/cgi-bin/wxis.exe/?IsisScript=oet.xis&method=post&formato=2&cantidad=1&expresion=mfn=009919. dead.
2. Encyclopedia: Jacoby. M.. 1881. Eumolpidae. https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/584677. Insecta. Coleoptera. Biologia Centrali-Americana. 6. 1. 105–187.
3. J.. Bechyné. 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.