Glyptoscelis Explained

Glyptoscelis is a genus of leaf beetles in the subfamily Eumolpinae. There are 38 species of Glyptoscelis described from North, Central and South America.^[1] There are also three species of Glyptoscelis known from the West Indies, though they are wrongly placed in the genus.^[2] In addition, a single species was described from Hunan, China in 2021.^[3]

According to BugGuide and ITIS, the genus is now placed in the tribe Eumolpini instead of Adoxini.

Species

These species belong to the genus Glyptoscelis:

• Glyptoscelis aeneipennis Baly, 1865^[4]
• Glyptoscelis albicans Baly, 1865

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• Glyptoscelis albida LeConte, 1859

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• Glyptoscelis alternata Crotch, 1873

^{i c g b[5]}

• Glyptoscelis aridis Van Dyke, 1938

^{i c g}

• Glyptoscelis artemisiae Blake, 1967

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• Glyptoscelis barbata (Say, 1826)

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• Glyptoscelis cahitae Blake, 1967^[2]
• Glyptoscelis chontalensis Jacoby, 1882^[6]
• Glyptoscelis coloradoensis Blake, 1967

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• Glyptoscelis cryptica (Say, 1824)

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• Glyptoscelis cylindrica Blake, 1967

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• Glyptoscelis diabola Krauss, 1937

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• Glyptoscelis dohrni Jacoby, 1900^[8]
• Glyptoscelis fascicularis Baly, 1865^[4]
• Glyptoscelis gayi Lefèvre, 1891^[9]
• Glyptoscelis gigas Jacoby, 1897^[10]
• Glyptoscelis guatemalensis Blake, 1967^[2]
• Glyptoscelis idahoensis Blake, 1967

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• Glyptoscelis illustris Crotch, 1873

^{i c g b[5]}

• Glyptoscelis juniperi Blake, 1967

^{i c g b[2]}

• Glyptoscelis longior LeConte, 1878

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• Glyptoscelis mexicana Jacoby, 1882^[6]
• Glyptoscelis monrosi Blake, 1952
• Glyptoscelis paraguayensis Jacoby, 1897^[10]
• Glyptoscelis parvula Blaisdell, 1921

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• Glyptoscelis paula Blake, 1967

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• Glyptoscelis peperi Blake, 1967

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• Glyptoscelis pinnigera Blake, 1952
• Glyptoscelis prosopis Schaeffer, 1905

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• Glyptoscelis pubescens (Fabricius, 1777)

^{i c g b} (hairy leaf beetle)

• Glyptoscelis pulvinosus (Blanchard, 1851)^[11]
• Glyptoscelis septentrionalis Blake, 1967

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• Glyptoscelis sequoiae Blaisdell, 1921

^{i c g}

• Glyptoscelis sinica Moseyko, 2021^[3]
• Glyptoscelis sonorensis Blake, 1967^[2]
• Glyptoscelis squamulata Crotch, 1873

^{i c g b[5]} (grape bud beetle)

• Glyptoscelis vandykei Krauss, 1937

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• Glyptoscelis yosemitae Krauss, 1937

^{i c g[7]} Data sources: i = ITIS, c = Catalogue of Life, g = GBIF, b = Bugguide.net

Three additional species have been described from the West Indies. According to Doris Holmes Blake, in her 1967 review of the genus, they are wrongly placed in it:^{[12] [2]}

• Glyptoscelis brevicornis (Olivier, 1808)
• Glyptoscelis fusca (Drapiez, 1820)
• Glyptoscelis hobsoni (Curtis, 1840)

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. Elgueta. M.. Daccordi. M.. Zoia. S.. 2017. Lista de las especies de Spilopyrinae y Eumolpinae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) de Chile. Boletín del Museo Nacional de Historia Natural, Chile. 66. 67–84. 10.54830/bmnhn.v66.n1.2017.73 . 255713904 . Spanish.
2. Blake. D. H.. 1967. Revision of the Beetles of Genus Glyptoscelis (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae). Proceedings of the United States National Museum. 123. 3604. 1–53. 10.5479/si.00963801.123-3604.1.
3. Moseyko. A.G.. 2020. 15 January 2021. Notes on Asiatic Eumolpinae (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae). Entomological Review. 100. 6. 843–862. 10.1134/S0013873820060123. 234621478 .
4. Baly. J. S.. 1864. Descriptions of new Genera and Species of Phytophaga. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London. 12. 4. 333–357. 10.1111/j.1365-2311.1864.tb00109.x.
5. Crotch. G. R.. 1873. Materials for the Study of the Phytophaga of the United States. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 25. 1. 19–83. 4624297.
6. Encyclopedia: Jacoby. M.. 1881. Eumolpidae. https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/584677. Insecta. Coleoptera. Biologia Centrali-Americana. 6. 1. 105–187.
7. Krauss. N. L. H.. 1937. A Study of the Genus Glyptoscelis Le Conte in America North of Mexico (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae). University of California Publications in Entomology. 7. 2. 21–32.
8. Jacoby. M.. 1900. Descriptions of New Species and a New Genus of South American Eumolpidæ, with Remarks on some of the Genera. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London. 48. 4. 453–510. 10.1111/j.1365-2311.1900.tb02719.x.
9. Lefèvre. E.. 1891. Descriptions d'espèces nouvelles de Clytrides et d'Eumolpides. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique. 35. CCXLVIII–CCLXXIX.
10. Jacoby. M.. 1897. Descriptions of some new species of Clythridae and Eumolpidae. The Entomologist. 30. 413. 261–264.
11. Jerez. V.. Berti. N.. 1987. Glyptoscelis pulvinosus (Blanchard, 1851), nueva combinacion y redescripcion de la especie (Chrysomelidae, Eumolpinae). Glyptoscelis pulvinosus (Blanchard, 1851), new combination and redescription of the species (Chrysomelidae, Eumolpinae). Boletin de la Sociedad de Biología de Concepción. 58. 89–93. es.
12. Bechyné. J.. 1953. Katalog der neotropischen Eumolpiden (Col. Phytoph. Chrysomeloidea). Entomologische Arbeiten aus dem Museum G. Frey. 4. 26–303. German.