Glyptoscelis

Glyptoscelis is a genus of leaf beetles in the subfamily Eumolpinae. There are 38 described species in Glyptoscelis, known from North, Central and South America.[1][2][3][4][5]

Glyptoscelis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Chrysomelidae
Subfamily: Eumolpinae
Tribe: Eumolpini
Genus: Glyptoscelis
Chevrolat in Dejean, 1836
Type species
Eumolpus hirtus
(= Cryptocephalus pubescens Fabricius, 1777)
Olivier, 1808

According to BugGuide and ITIS, the genus is now placed in the tribe Eumolpini instead of Adoxini.[4][1]

Species

These species belong to the genus Glyptoscelis:

Data sources: i = ITIS,[1] c = Catalogue of Life,[2] g = GBIF,[3] b = Bugguide.net[4]

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:[15][8]

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

References

  1. "Glyptoscelis Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-04-21.
  2. "Browse Glyptoscelis". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2018-04-21.
  3. "Glyptoscelis". GBIF. Retrieved 2018-04-21.
  4. "Glyptoscelis Genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-04-21.
  5. Elgueta, M.; Daccordi, M.; Zoia, S. (2017). "Lista de las especies de Spilopyrinae y Eumolpinae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) de Chile" (PDF). Boletín del Museo Nacional de Historia Natural, Chile (in Spanish). 66: 67–84.
  6. Baly, J. S. (1864). "Descriptions of new Genera and Species of Phytophaga". Transactions of the Entomological Society of London. 12 (4): 333–357. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2311.1864.tb00109.x.
  7. 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. JSTOR 4624297.
  8. Blake, D. H. (1967). "Revision of the Beetles of Genus Glyptoscelis (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae)" (PDF). Proceedings of the United States National Museum. 123 (3604): 1–53. doi:10.5479/si.00963801.123-3604.1.
  9. Jacoby, M. (1881). "Eumolpidae". Insecta. Coleoptera. Biologia Centrali-Americana. 6. pp. 105–187.
  10. 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.
  11. 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. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2311.1900.tb02719.x.
  12. Lefèvre, E. (1891). "Descriptions d'espèces nouvelles de Clytrides et d'Eumolpides". Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique. 35: CCXLVIII–CCLXXIX.
  13. Jacoby, M. (1897). "Descriptions of some new species of Clythridae and Eumolpidae". The Entomologist. 30 (413): 261–264.
  14. Jerez, V.; Berti, N. (1987). "Glyptoscelis pulvinosus (Blanchard, 1851), nueva combinacion y redescripcion de la especie (Chrysomelidae, Eumolpinae)". Boletin de la Sociedad de Biología de Concepción. 58: 89–93.
  15. Bechyné, J. (1953). "Katalog der neotropischen Eumolpiden (Col. Phytoph. Chrysomeloidea)". Entomologische Arbeiten aus dem Museum G. Frey (in German). 4: 26–303.

Further reading

  • Riley, Edward G.; Clark, Shawn M.; Seeno, Terry N. (2003). Catalog of the leaf beetles of America north of Mexico (Coleoptera: Megalopodidae, Orsodacnidae and Chrysomelidae, excluding Bruchinae). Special Publication No. 1. The Coleopterists' Society. ISBN 978-0-9726087-1-8.
  • Lobl, I.; Smetana, A., eds. (2013). Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera, Volume 6: Chrysomeloidea. Apollo Books. ISBN 978-90-04-26091-7.
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