Cubispa

Cubispa is a genus of leaf beetles in the subfamily Eumolpinae. It is known from Cuba and Guatemala. Beetles in the genus are wingless.

Cubispa
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Chrysomelidae
Subfamily: Eumolpinae
Tribe: Cubispini
Genus: Cubispa
Barber, 1946
Type species
Cubispa turquino
Barber, 1946

Taxonomy

The genus Cubispa was originally described by Herbert Spencer Barber for a single species from Cuba, Cubispa turquino, and was placed in the subfamily Hispinae (now known as Cassidinae), in the tribe Cephaloleini. It was moved to Eumolpinae by Francisco Monrós in 1954, who placed the genus in its own tribe, Cubispini.[1] A second species for the genus, Cubispa esmeralda, was described by C.L. Staines from Guatemala in 2000.[2] A second genus, Lobispa, was described and placed in the tribe Cubispini in 2001.[3]

According to Borowiec & Świętojańska (2014), the placement of the tribe Cubispini and the genus Cubispa is still uncertain, and they prefer to exclude Cubispa from Eumolpinae and retain it in Cassidinae.[4]

Species
  • Cubispa esmeralda Staines, 2000[2]
  • Cubispa turquino Barber, 1946

References
  1. Monrós, F. (1954). "Notes and synonyms in Chrysomelidae (Coleoptera)". Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington. 56 (1): 23–26.
  2. Staines, C. L. (2000). "A new species of Cubispa Barber, 1946 (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae) from Guatemala". Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift. 47 (1): 57–60. doi:10.1002/dez.200000006 (inactive 24 March 2020).
  3. Staines, C. L. (2001). "A new genus and two new species of Eumolpinae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) from tropical America". Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington. 103 (1): 98–102.
  4. Morse, Geoffrey; Borowiec, Lech; Świętojańska, Jolanta; Jolivet, Pierre; Verma, Krishna K.; Lawrence, John F.; Ślipiński, Adam; Chamorro, Maria Lourdes; Vencl, Fredric V.; Leschen, Richard A. B.; Nadein, Konstantin S.; Bezdêk, Jan; Konstantinov, Alexander S.; Reid, Chris A. M. (2014). "2.7. Chrysomelidae Latrielle, 1802". In Leschen, R.A.B.; Beutel, R.G. (eds.). Handbook of Zoology. Arthropoda: Insecta: Coleoptera: Volume 3: Morphology and Systematics (Phytophaga). Berlin - Boston: Walter de Gruyter. pp. 217–225. doi:10.1515/9783110274462.189. ISBN 978-3-11-027370-0.


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