Alethaxius Explained

Alethaxius is a genus of leaf beetles in the subfamily Eumolpinae. It is distributed from Mexico to northern South America, and it is also found in the West Indies.^[1] The genus was originally named Aletes by Félicien Chapuis in 1874. However, this name was preoccupied by Aletes Carpenter, 1857 (in Mollusca), so the genus was renamed to Alethaxius by Édouard Lefèvre in 1885. According to Flowers (1996), it is very likely that Alethaxius is polyphyletic and represents at least three different genera.^[2]

Species

• Alethaxius acunai Blake, 1947^[3]
• Alethaxius aeneus Bowditch, 1921^[4]
• Alethaxius angulicollis (Chapuis, 1874)
• Alethaxius annulicornis (Lefèvre, 1878)
• Alethaxius bogotanus (Lefèvre, 1878)
• Alethaxius bruneri Blake, 1949^[5]
• Alethaxius callosicollis Bechyné, 1953^[1]
• Alethaxius chevrolati (Lefèvre, 1891)^{[6] [7]}
• Alethaxius carinipennis Bowditch, 1921^[4]
• Alethaxius darlingtoni Blake, 1945^[8]
• Alethaxius dichrous (Lefèvre, 1878)^[9]
• Alethaxius dominicae Blake, 1968^[10]
• Alethaxius geniculatus Lefèvre, 1885
• Alethaxius guatemalensis (Jacoby, 1881)
• Alethaxius hispaniolae Blake, 1945^[8]
• Alethaxius integer Blake, 1945^[8]
• Alethaxius intricatus (Lefèvre, 1878)
• Alethaxius jacobyi Weise, 1913
• Alethaxius landolti (Lefèvre, 1878)
• Alethaxius latericostatus (Lefèvre, 1882)
• Alethaxius marcuzzii Bechyné, 1958^[9]
• Alethaxius meliae Blake, 1945^[8]
• Alethaxius mexicanus (Jacoby, 1881)
• Alethaxius nigritarsis Jacoby, 1892
• Alethaxius pallidus Bowditch, 1921^[4]
• Alethaxius parumpunctatus Bechyné, 1953^[1]
• Alethaxius polychromus Bechyné, 1955^[11]
• Alethaxius prolixus Lefèvre, 1885
• Alethaxius pubicollis Jacoby, 1890
• Alethaxius puertoricensis Blake, 1945^[8]
• Alethaxius punctifer Bechyné, 1953^[1]
• Alethaxius ruffoi Bechyné, 1950^[12]
• Alethaxius semicostatus Blake, 1946^[13]
• Alethaxius semiviridis Jacoby, 1890
• Alethaxius striatulus Lefèvre, 1886
• Alethaxius tortuensis Blake, 1947^[3]
• Alethaxius tuberculifer Lefèvre, 1889
• Alethaxius turquinensis Blake, 1945^[8]
• Alethaxius vagabundus (Lefèvre, 1878)
• Alethaxius variabilis (Jacoby, 1881)
• Alethaxius yunquensis Blake, 1946^[13]

Synonyms:

• Alethaxius brevis Lefèvre, 1889: Moved to Dryadomolpus^[14]
• Alethaxius columbicus Jacoby, 1901: Moved to Rhabdocolaspis^[11]

Notes and References

1. Bechyné. J.. 1953. Katalog der neotropischen Eumolpiden (Col. Phytoph. Chrysomeloidea). Entomologische Arbeiten aus dem Museum G. Frey. 4. 26–303. German.
2. 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.
3. Blake. D. H.. 1947. New eumolpid beetles from the West Indies. Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences. 37. 9. 310–312. 20260177 .
4. Bowditch. F. C.. 1921. South American Eumolpidæ, mostly of the group Colaspini. The Entomologist. 54. 214–216.
5. Blake. D. H. 1949. Notes on some West Indian Chrysomelidae. Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences. 39. 11. 367–371. 24531327.
6. Lefèvre. E.. 1891. Descriptions d'espèces nouvelles de Clytrides et d'Eumolpides. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique. 35. CCXLVIII–CCLXXIX.
7. Bechyné. J.. 1957. Les Chrysomeloidea néotropicaus des collections du Muséum Zool. de l'Université á Helsingfors. Notulae Entomologicae. 37. 53–57.
8. Blake. D. H.. 1945. Six new species of beetles of a eumolpid genus new to the West Indies. Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences. 35. 10. 323–327. 24531081.
9. Bechyné. J.. 1958. Notizen zu den neotropischen Chrysomeloidea (Col. Phytophaga). Entomologischen Arbeiten aus dem Museum G. Frey. 9. 478–706. 2019-01-18. 2019-01-19. https://web.archive.org/web/20190119121240/http://chrysomelidae.miza-ucv.org.ve/sites/chrysomelidae.miza-ucv.org.ve/files/1958_Separata_136.pdf. dead.
10. Blake. D. H.. 1968. Ten new chrysomelid beetles from Dominica and Jamaica. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington. 70. 1. 60–67.
11. Bechyné. J.. 1955. Reise des Herrn G. Frey in Sudamerika: Eumolpidae. Entomologischen Arbeiten aus dem Museum G. Frey. 6. 569–657. 2019-01-18. 2019-01-19. https://web.archive.org/web/20190119175740/http://chrysomelidae.miza-ucv.org.ve/sites/chrysomelidae.miza-ucv.org.ve/files/1955_Separata_107.pdf. dead.
12. Bechyné. J.. 1950. Nuovi Eumolpidi Sud - Americani. Memorie del Museo Civico di Storie Naturale di Verona. 2. 99–106. 2019-01-18. 2019-01-19. https://web.archive.org/web/20190119174310/http://chrysomelidae.miza-ucv.org.ve/sites/chrysomelidae.miza-ucv.org.ve/files/1950_Separata_63.pdf. dead.
13. Blake. D. H.. 1946. Seven new species of West Indian Chrysomelidae (Coleoptera). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington. 48. 5. 111–119.
14. J.. Bechyné. 1997. V.. Savini. Evaluación de los datos sobre los Phytophaga dañinos en Venezuela (Coleoptera). Parte I. Boletín de Entomología Venezolana. Serie Monografias. 1. 1–278. 2019-02-25. 2018-06-23. https://web.archive.org/web/20180623004945/http://chrysomelidae.miza-ucv.org.ve/sites/chrysomelidae.miza-ucv.org.ve/files/LibroAzulParte01.pdf. dead.