Taophila

Taophila is a genus of leaf beetles in the subfamily Eumolpinae. The genus is endemic to New Caledonia.[1][2][3]

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

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)[4]
    • Taophila millei Samuelson, 2010[1]
    • Taophila nigrans Jolivet, Verma & Mille, 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, Verma & Mille, 2007
  • Subgenus Lapita Gómez-Zurita & Cardoso, 2014[2]
    • Taophila aphrodita Gómez-Zurita, 2014[2]
    • Taophila atlantis Platania & Gómez-Zurita, 2019[3]
    • Taophila gaea Gómez-Zurita, 2014[2]
    • Taophila hermes Platania & Gómez-Zurita, 2019[3]
    • Taophila kronos Platania & Gómez-Zurita, 2019[3]
    • Taophila mars Samuelson, 2010[1]
    • Taophila oceanica Platania & Gómez-Zurita, 2019[3]
    • Taophila olympica Platania & Gómez-Zurita, 2019[3]
    • Taophila ouranos Platania & Gómez-Zurita, 2019[3]
    • Taophila riberai Platania & Gómez-Zurita, 2019[3]
    • Taophila tridentata Platania & Gómez-Zurita, 2019[3]

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

References

  1. Samuelson, G. A. (2010). "Review of Taophila, a genus endemic to New Caledonia (Coleoptera : Chrysomelidae : Eumolpinae)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 2621: 45–62.
  2. 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. Platania, L.; Cardoso, A.; Gómez-Zurita, J. (2019). "Diversity and evolution of New Caledonian endemic Taophila subgenus Lapita (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Eumolpinae)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. Advance articles (zlz119): 1–32. doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlz119.
  4. 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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