Galeruca Explained

Galeruca is a genus of leaf beetles in the subfamily Galerucinae. It is distributed in the Palaearctic and Nearctic realms. In Turkey, the genus is represented by 10 species.^{[1] [2]}

Species

Galeruca contains the following species, divided into seven subgenera:

Subgenus Galeruca Geoffroy, 1762:

• Galeruca abbreviata (Joannis, 1865)
• Galeruca altissima Chen & Jiang, 1981
• Galeruca angelae Havelka, 1958
• Galeruca angulicollis Kocher, 1959
• Galeruca angusta (Küster, 1849)
• Galeruca armeniaca Weise, 1886
• Galeruca artemisiae (Rosenhauer, 1956)
• Galeruca baetica Weise, 1891
• Galeruca barbara (Erichson, 1841)
• Galeruca barovskyi Jacobson, 1925
• Galeruca browni Blake, 1945
• Galeruca circassica Reitter, 1889
• Galeruca comaica Cheng & Jiang, 1981
• Galeruca corsica (Joannis, 1865)
• Galeruca costatissima Blake, 1945
• Galeruca dahlii (Joannis, 1865)
• Galeruca daurica (Joannis, 1865)
• Galeruca extensa (Motschulsky, 1862)
• Galeruca externa Say, 1824
• Galeruca goudoti (Joannis, 1865)
• Galeruca heydeni Weise, 1887
• Galeruca hunyadensis Csiki, 1953
• Galeruca hyrcana Medvedev & Mirzoevna, 1969
• Galeruca ida Havelka, 1956
• Galeruca impressicollis Pic, 1934
• Galeruca improvisa Havelka, 1956
• Galeruca indica Baly, 1878
• Galeruca interrupta Illiger, 1802
• Galeruca jucunda (Falderman, 1837)
• Galeruca laticollis Sahlberg, 1838
• Galeruca littoralis (Fabricius, 1787)
• Galeruca luctuosa (Joannis, 1865)
• Galeruca macchoi (Joannis, 1865)
• Galeruca nebrodensis Ragusa, 1887
• Galeruca nigrolineata Mannerheim, 1825
• Galeruca obscura (Joannis, 1865)
• Galeruca pallasia Jacobson, 1925
• Galeruca parallelipennis Beenen, 2002
• Galeruca planiuscula Laboissière, 1937
• Galeruca pomonae (Scopoli, 1763)
• Galeruca popenoei Blake, 1945
• Galeruca regularis Beenen & Yang, 2007
• Galeruca reichardti Jacobson, 1925
• Galeruca reichei (Joannis, 1865)
• Galeruca rudis J. L. LeConte, 1857
• Galeruca rugosa (Joannis, 1865)
• Galeruca sardosa (Gené, 1839)
• Galeruca sicana (Reiche, 1860)
• Galeruca sinensis Laboissière, 1937
• Galeruca spectabilis (Faldermann, 1837)
• Galeruca tanaceti (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Galeruca tripoliana (Chevrolat, 1873)
• Galeruca trubetzkoji Jacobson, 1925

Subgenus Emarhopa Weise, 1886

• Galeruca maculaticeps Pic, 1920
• Galeruca rufa Germar, 1824

Subgenus Fassatia Havelka, 1954

• Galeruca microptera Havelka, 1954

Subgenus Galerima Reitter, 1903

• Galeruca canigoensis Fauvel, 1892
• Galeruca miegii (Perez Arcas, 1874)
• Galeruca monticola (Kiesenwetter, 1850)
• Galeruca villiersi Berty & Rapilly, 1983

Subgenus Galerotoma Reitter, 1903

• Galeruca haagi (Joannis, 1865)

Subgenus Haptoscelis Weise, 1886

• Galeruca melanocephala (Ponza, 1805)
• Galeruca reitteri Havelka, 1958

Subgenus Rhabdotilla Jacobson, 1911 (formerly Galemira Beenen, 2003)^[3]

• Galeruca gyangzea Chen & Jiang, 1987
• Galeruca himalayensis Jacoby, 1896
• Galeruca holzschuhi (Mandl, 1981)
• Galeruca sexcostata Jacoby, 1904
• Galeruca zangana Chen & Jiang, 1987

Notes and References

1. Web site: Biological Aspects of Galeruca circassica Reitter, 1889 (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae) in Relation to the Weed Cephalaria procera Fish. and Lall. (Dipsacaceae) in Anatolia . Irfan Aslan, Ron Beenen and Hikmet Özbek . Bonner zoologische Beiträge Band 54 (2005) Heft 4 Seiten 173–177 Bonn, Oktober 2006 . 2009-12-16 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110207011705/http://www.zfmk.de/BZB/BzB_54_4_01_Aslan_Beenen_Oezbek.pdf . 2011-02-07 . dead .
2. Aslan, I., Warchalowski, A. & Özbek, H. 2000. A PreliminaryReview of the Subfamily Galerucinae (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae) in Turkey. Journal of the EntomologicalResearch Society 2: 27-42
3. Bezděk. J.. Beenen. R.. 2020. Taxonomical changes and comments on Palaearctic and Oriental Chrysomelidae (Coleoptera). Caucasian Entomological Bulletin. 16. 2. 319–327. 10.23885/181433262020162-319327. free.