Zenocolaspis Explained

Zenocolaspis is a genus of leaf beetles in the subfamily Eumolpinae. It is known from North America and South America. There are at least two described species in Zenocolaspis. The genus is very similar to Colaspis (also known as Maecolaspis), but the body is smaller and the eyes are strongly convex and prominent externally.

The genus was established by the Czech entomologist Jan Bechyné in a monograph titled "Evaluación de los datos sobre los Phytophaga dañinos en Venezuela (Coleoptera)" before his death in 1973, but the work (including the description of the genus) was unpublished until October 1997. However, as early as 1968 it was indicated that some species from Colaspis had been moved to Zenocolaspis, before the formal description of the latter was published.^[1]

Species

• Zenocolaspis inconstans (Lefèvre, 1878)
  • Zenocolaspis inconstans constituta (Bechyné, 1951)^[2]
  • Zenocolaspis inconstans inconstans (Lefèvre, 1878)
  • Zenocolaspis inconstans lividipes (Lefèvre, 1884)^[3]
  • Zenocolaspis inconstans nicoletta (Bechyné, 1950)^[4]
  • Zenocolaspis inconstans pusilla (Lefèvre, 1884)^[5]
  • Zenocolaspis inconstans semidistincta (Bechyné, 1950)^[6]
• Zenocolaspis subtropica (Schaeffer, 1906)^[7]

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. Bechyné. J.. Špringlová de Bechyné. B.. 1968. Notas sobre el género Colaspis (Col. Phytophaga Eumolpidae). Memoria de la Sociedad de Ciencias Naturales la Salle. 28. 81. 225–264.
2. J.. Bechyné. 1951. Liste provisoire des Eumolpides de Bolivie et observations diverses sur les espèces de l'Amérique du Sud (Col. Phytophaga). Entomologische Arbeiten aus dem Museum G. Frey Tutzing bei München. 2. 227–352.
3. Lefèvre. E.. 1884. [Le diagnoses de nouvelles espèces d'Eumolpides]]. Bulletin de la Société entomologique de France. 4 . CXX–CXXI.
4. Bechyné. J.. 1950. Notes sur les Eumolpides de l'Amérique du Sud, (Col. Phytophaga). Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 12. 3. 25. 70–85. 10.1080/00222935008654043 .
5. Lefèvre. E.. 1884. Eumolpides du voyage du Dr E. Fromont au Brésil et à la Plata. Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de Belgique. 1884. clv–clvi.
6. J.. Bechyné. 1950. Les générotypes des Eumolpides de l'Amérique du Sud et du Centre avec les diagnoses des formes nouvelles (Col. Phytoph. Chrysomeloidea). Mitteilungen der Münchner Entomologischen Gesellschaft. 40. 264–292.
7. Schaeffer. C.. 1906. On new and known genera and species of the family Chrysomelidae. Brooklyn Institute Museum Science Bulletin. 1. 9. 221–253. 2027/mdp.39015031364543.