Colaspidea Explained

Colaspidea is a genus of leaf beetles in the subfamily Eumolpinae. It is known from North America (California and the southwestern United States) and the Mediterranean. It has recently been suggested that the Mediterranean species of Colaspidea are a sister genus to Chalcosicya, and that Colaspina forms a sister genus to the former two combined. It has also been suggested that the North American species of Colaspidea may represent a separate genus.^[1]

The North American species of Colaspidea have wings, while the Mediterranean species are wingless.^[1]

Species

There are 19 described species in the genus Colaspidea:

Mediterranean species:

• Colaspidea algarvensis Zoia, 2014
• Colaspidea confinis Zoia, 2014
• Colaspidea dogueti Zoia, 2014
• Colaspidea globosa (Küster, 1848)

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• Colaspidea graeca Zoia, 2014
• Colaspidea grossa Fairmaire, 1866

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• Colaspidea incerta Zoia, 2014
• Colaspidea inflata Lefèvre, 1876
• Colaspidea juengeri Doguet, 1988 (formerly a subspecies of C. metallica)
• Colaspidea maghrebina Zoia, 2014
• Colaspidea maura Zoia, 2014
• Colaspidea metallica (Rossi, 1790)

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• Colaspidea oblonga (Blanchard, 1845)

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• Colaspidea ovulum Fairmaire, 1866
• Colaspidea pallidipes Zoia, 2014
• Colaspidea proxima (Fairmaire, 1862)

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North American species:

• Colaspidea pallipes Fall, 1933

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• Colaspidea pomonae Fall, 1933

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• Colaspidea smaragdula (LeConte, 1857)

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Data sources: i = ITIS, c = Catalogue of Life, g = GBIF, b = BugGuide

Further reading

• Book: Catalog of the leaf beetles of America north of Mexico (Coleoptera: Megalopodidae, Orsodacnidae and Chrysomelidae, excluding Bruchinae). 2003. Riley . Edward G.. Clark . Shawn M.. Seeno . Terry N.. The Coleopterists' Society. Special Publication No. 1. 978-0-9726087-1-8.
• Book: Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera, Volume 6: Chrysomeloidea. 2013. Lobl . I.. Smetana . A.. Apollo Books. 978-90-04-26091-7.

Notes and References

1. Flowers. R. Wills. 2012. Chalcosicya maya n. sp, a new Mexican species (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Eumolpinae) and its implications for morphology and biogeography. Insecta Mundi. 209. 1–9. 2018-12-21. 2018-12-21. https://web.archive.org/web/20181221182446/http://journals.fcla.edu/mundi/article/download/0209/74464. dead.
2. Zoia. S.. 2017 . Synonymic note on Colaspidea oblonga (Blanchard, 1845) and Colaspidea nitida Lucas, 1846 (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae, Eumolpinae). Arquivos Entomolóxicos. 17. 423–424.