Taophila

Taophila
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Euarthropoda
Class:Insecta
Order:Coleoptera
Family:Chrysomelidae
Subfamily:Eumolpinae
Genus:Taophila
Heller, 1916
Type species
Taophila subsericea
Heller, 1916

Taophila is a genus of leaf beetles in the subfamily Eumolpinae. The genus is endemic to New Caledonia.[1][2]

Species

The species of Taophila are divided into three subgenera:

  • Subgenus Taophila Heller, 1916
    • Taophila corvi Samuelson, 2010[1]
    • Taophila deimos Samuelson, 2010[1]
    • Taophila hydrae Samuelson, 2010[1]
    • Taophila joliveti Samuelson, 2010[1]
    • Taophila mandjeliae (Jolivet, Verma & Mille, 2010)[3]
    • Taophila millei Samuelson, 2010[1]
    • Taophila nigrans Jolivet et al., 2007
    • Taophila sagittarii Samuelson, 2010[1]
    • Taophila scorpii Samuelson, 2010[1]
    • Taophila subsericea Heller, 1916
  • Subgenus Jolivetiana Gómez-Zurita & Cardoso, 2014[2]
    • Taophila mantillerii Jolivet et al., 2007
  • Subgenus Lapita Gómez-Zurita & Cardoso, 2014[2]
    • Taophila aphrodita Gómez-Zurita, 2014[2]
    • Taophila gaea Gómez-Zurita, 2014[2]
    • Taophila mars Samuelson, 2010[1]

T. cancellata Samuelson, 2010[1] was transferred to Dematochroma.[2]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Samuelson, G. A. (2010). "Review of Taophila, a genus endemic to New Caledonia (Coleoptera : Chrysomelidae : Eumolpinae)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 2621: 45–62.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Gómez-Zurita, J.; Cardoso, A. (2014). "Systematics of the New Caledonian endemic genus Taophila Heller (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae, Eumolpinae) combining morphological, molecular and ecological data, with description of two new species". Systematic Entomology. 39 (1): 111–126. doi:10.1111/syen.12038.
  3. ↑ Gómez-Zurita, J. (2017). "Insights on the genus Acronymolpus Samuelson with new synonymies and exclusion of Stethotes Baly from the fauna of New Caledonia (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Eumolpinae)". ZooKeys (720): 65–75. doi:10.3897/zookeys.720.13582. PMC 5740434. PMID 29290725.


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