Beltia Explained
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.[1]
Species
- Beltia angustomarginata (Bechyné, 1953)[2] – central Panama
- Beltia awapita Flowers, 2018[1] – northwestern Ecuador
- Beltia chiriquensis (Jacoby, 1882) – central Costa Rica to eastern Panama
- Beltia confusa Flowers, 2018[1] – Amazonian Peru
- Beltia gorgona Flowers, 2018[1] – Pacific coast of Colombia
- Beltia herreri Flowers, 2018[1] – northwestern Costa Rica, northwestern Panama
- Beltia ledesmae Flowers, 2018[1] – Ecuador west of the Andes
- Beltia napoensis Flowers, 2018[1] – Ecuador, Peru, Colombia (collected along the Napo River)
- Beltia nicaraguensis Jacoby, 1881 – southern Nicaragua, northern Costa Rica
- Beltia osa Flowers, 2018[1] – Costa Rica–Panama border
- Beltia placidula (Bechyné, 1950)[3] – Amazonian region of northern Peru
- Beltia rugosa Flowers, 2018[1] – Pacific coast of Colombia
- Beltia sanchezae Flowers, 2018[1] – Costa Rica (Cordillera de Talamanca)
- Beltia talaga Flowers, 2018[1] – eastern slope of the Ecuadorian Andes
- Beltia tilarana Flowers, 2018[1] – Costa Rica (Cordillera de Tilarán)
- Beltia tisingalita Flowers, 2018[1] – Costa Rica–Panama border (Cordillera de Talamanca)
- Beltia tsachila Flowers, 2018[1] – western slope of the Ecuadorian Andes
- Beltia vacilona Flowers, 2018[1] – Costa Rica
- Beltia weyrauchi (Bechyné, 1950)[3] – eastern Peruvian Andes
Notes and References
- 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.
- Bechyné. J.. 1953. Katalog der neotropischen Eumolpiden (Col. Phytoph. Chrysomeloidea). Entomologische Arbeiten aus dem Museum G. Frey. 4. 26–303. German.
- Bechyné. J.. 1950. Eumolpides Américains nouveaux ou peu connus. Entomologischen Arbeiten aus dem Museum G. Frey. 1. 205–238. 2018-12-21. 2018-09-23. https://web.archive.org/web/20180923200725/http://chrysomelidae.miza-ucv.org.ve/sites/chrysomelidae.miza-ucv.org.ve/files/1950_Separata_70.pdf. dead.
