Alethaxius is a genus of leaf beetles in the subfamily Eumolpinae. It is distributed from Mexico to northern South America, and it is also found in the West Indies.[1] The genus was originally named Aletes by Félicien Chapuis in 1874. However, this name was preoccupied by Aletes Carpenter, 1857 (in Mollusca), so the genus was renamed to Alethaxius by Édouard Lefèvre in 1885.[2] According to Flowers (1996), it is very likely that Alethaxius is polyphyletic and represents at least three different genera.[3]
Species
- Alethaxius acunai Blake, 1947[4]
- Alethaxius aeneus Bowditch, 1921[5]
- Alethaxius angulicollis (Chapuis, 1874)[6]
- Alethaxius annulicornis (Lefèvre, 1878)
- Alethaxius bogotanus (Lefèvre, 1878)
- Alethaxius bruneri Blake, 1949[7]
- Alethaxius callosicollis Bechyné, 1953[1]
- Alethaxius chevrolati (Lefèvre, 1891)[8][9]
- Alethaxius carinipennis Bowditch, 1921[5]
- Alethaxius darlingtoni Blake, 1945[10]
- Alethaxius dichrous (Lefèvre, 1878)[11]
- Alethaxius dominicae Blake, 1968[12]
- Alethaxius geniculatus Lefèvre, 1885[2]
- Alethaxius guatemalensis (Jacoby, 1881)
- Alethaxius hispaniolae Blake, 1945[10]
- Alethaxius integer Blake, 1945[10]
- Alethaxius intricatus (Lefèvre, 1878)
- Alethaxius jacobyi Weise, 1913
- Alethaxius landolti (Lefèvre, 1878)
- Alethaxius latericostatus (Lefèvre, 1882)
- Alethaxius marcuzzii Bechyné, 1958[11]
- Alethaxius meliae Blake, 1945[10]
- Alethaxius mexicanus (Jacoby, 1881)
- Alethaxius nigritarsis Jacoby, 1892
- Alethaxius pallidus Bowditch, 1921[5]
- Alethaxius parumpunctatus Bechyné, 1953[1]
- Alethaxius polychromus Bechyné, 1955[13]
- Alethaxius prolixus Lefèvre, 1885[2]
- Alethaxius pubicollis Jacoby, 1890
- Alethaxius puertoricensis Blake, 1945[10]
- Alethaxius punctifer Bechyné, 1953[1]
- Alethaxius ruffoi Bechyné, 1950[14]
- Alethaxius semicostatus Blake, 1946[15]
- Alethaxius semiviridis Jacoby, 1890
- Alethaxius striatulus Lefèvre, 1886
- Alethaxius tortuensis Blake, 1947[4]
- Alethaxius tuberculifer Lefèvre, 1889
- Alethaxius turquinensis Blake, 1945[10]
- Alethaxius vagabundus (Lefèvre, 1878)
- Alethaxius variabilis (Jacoby, 1881)
- Alethaxius yunquensis Blake, 1946[15]
Synonyms:
- Alethaxius brevis Lefèvre, 1889: Moved to Dryadomolpus[16]
- Alethaxius columbicus Jacoby, 1901: Moved to Rhabdocolaspis[13]
References
- ^ Bechyné, J. (1953). "Katalog der neotropischen Eumolpiden (Col. Phytoph. Chrysomeloidea)" (in German). Entomologische Arbeiten aus dem Museum G. Frey. 4: 26–303.
- ^ Lefèvre, É. (1885). "Eumolpidarum hucusque cognitarum catalogus, sectionum conspectu systematico, generum sicut et specierum nonnullarum novarum descriptionibus adjunctis". Mémoires de la Société Royale des Sciences de Liège. 11 (16): 1–172. 2.
- ^ Flowers, R.W. (1996). "The subfamily Eumolpinae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) in Central America". Revista de Biología Tropical Special Publication. 2: 1–59. Archived from the original on January 1, 2019. Retrieved December 31, 2018.
- ^ Blake, D. H. (1947). "New eumolpid beetles from the West Indies". Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences. 37 (9): 310–312. PMID 20260177
- ^ Bowditch, F. C. (1921). "South American Eumolpidæ, mostly of the group Colaspini". The Entomologist. 54: 214–216.
- ^ Chapuis, F. (1874). "Tome dixième. Famille des phytophages". Histoire naturelle des Insectes. Genera des coléoptères. Vol. 10. Lacordaire, J.T. & Chapuis, F. (eds.). Paris: Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret. pp. i–iv, 1–455.
- ^ Blake, D. H (1949). "Notes on some West Indian Chrysomelidae". Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences. 39 (11): 367–371. JSTOR 24531327
- ^ Lefèvre, E. (1891). "Descriptions d'espèces nouvelles de Clytrides et d'Eumolpides". Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique. 35: CCXLVIII–CCLXXIX.
- ^ Bechyné, J. (1957). "Les Chrysomeloidea néotropicaus des collections du Muséum Zool. de l'Université á Helsingfors". Notulae Entomologicae. 37: 53–57. Archived from the original on 2019-01-19. Retrieved 2019-01-18.
- ^ Blake, D. H. (1945). "Six new species of beetles of a eumolpid genus new to the West Indies". Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences. 35 (10): 323–327. JSTOR 24531081
- ^ Bechyné, J. (1958). "Notizen zu den neotropischen Chrysomeloidea (Col. Phytophaga)". Entomologischen Arbeiten aus dem Museum G. Frey. 9: 478–706. Archived from the original on 2019-01-19. Retrieved 2019-01-18.
- ^ Blake, D. H. (1968). "Ten new chrysomelid beetles from Dominica and Jamaica". Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington. 70 (1): 60–67.
- ^ Bechyné, J. (1955). "Reise des Herrn G. Frey in Sudamerika: Eumolpidae". Entomologischen Arbeiten aus dem Museum G. Frey. 6: 569–657. Archived from the original on 2019-01-19. Retrieved 2019-01-18.
- ^ Bechyné, J. (1950). "Nuovi Eumolpidi Sud - Americani". Memorie del Museo Civico di Storie Naturale di Verona. 2: 99–106. Archived from the original on 2019-01-19. Retrieved 2019-01-18.
- ^ Blake, D. H. (1946). "Seven new species of West Indian Chrysomelidae (Coleoptera)". Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington. 48 (5): 111–119.
- ^ Bechyné, J. (1997). "Evaluación de los datos sobre los Phytophaga dañinos en Venezuela (Coleoptera). Parte I". Boletín de Entomología Venezolana. 1: 1–278. Serie Monografias. Savini, V. (ed.). Archived from the original on 2018-06-23. Retrieved 2019-02-25.