{{Short description|Genus of leaf beetles from Asia}} {{Automatic taxobox | taxon = Aphilenia | display_parents = 2 | authority = Weise ''in'' Reitter, 1889 | type_species = ''Aphilenia interrupta'' | type_species_authority = Weise ''in'' Reitter, 1889 }}
'''''Aphilenia''''' is a genus of leaf beetles in the subfamily Eumolpinae. It is distributed in Central and East Asia<ref>{{cite book|last1=Moseyko|first1=A. G.|last2=Sprecher-Uebersax|first2=E.|year=2010|chapter=Eumolpinae|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qt8zDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA620|editor-last1=Löbl|editor-first1=I.|editor-last2=Smetana|editor-first2=A.|title=Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera. Volume 6. Chrysomeloidea|location=Stenstrup, Denmark|publisher=Apollo Books|pages=619–643|isbn=978-87-88757-84-2}}</ref> as well as southern Russia. Members of the genus are adapted to dry climates, and feed on bushes of the genus ''Calligonum''. In 2012, the genus was moved from the tribe Bromiini to the tribe Nodinini (now known as Typophorini).<ref name="Moseyko2012">{{cite journal|last=Moseyko|first=A. G.|year=2012|title=Comments on the genus ''Aphilenia'' Weise in Reitter, 1889 (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Eumolpinae), with a description of a new species from Russia|journal=Entomological Review|volume=92|issue=7|pages=773–781|doi=10.1134/S0013873812070044|s2cid=15377841}}</ref>
==Species== * Subgenus '''''Aphilenia''''' <small>Weise ''in'' Reitter, 1889</small> (type species: ''Aphilenia interrupta'' <small>Weise ''in'' Reitter, 1889</small>) ** ''Aphilenia astakhovi'' <small>Moseyko, 2012</small><ref name="Moseyko2012"/> – Russia: Astrakhan Oblast ** ''Aphilenia gobica'' <small>Lopatin, 1970</small> (formerly a subspecies of ''A. interrupta'')<ref name="Moseyko2013">{{cite journal|last=Moseyko|first=A. G.|year=2013|title=New data on the leaf beetle genus ''Aphilenia'' Weise in Reitter, 1889, with descriptions of two new species from Kazakhstan (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Eumolpinae)|url=http://www.ssc-ras.ru/files/files/18_%20Moseyko.pdf|journal=Caucasian Entomological Bulletin|volume=9|issue=1|pages=108–111|doi=10.23885/1814-3326-2013-9-1-108-111|doi-access=free}}</ref> – Mongolia, China: Inner Mongolia ** ''Aphilenia interrupta'' <small>Weise ''in'' Reitter, 1889</small> – Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, Turkey<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Romantsov|first1=P.V.|last2=Moseyko|first2=A.G.|year=2020|title=A new subgenus and species of Eumolpinae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) from Azerbaijan, with faunistic notes on adjacent countries|journal=Zootaxa|volume=4853|issue=1|pages=139–145|doi=10.11646/zootaxa.4853.1.10|pmid=33056391 |s2cid=222824162 }}</ref> ** ''Aphilenia ornata'' <small>Reitter, 1889</small> – Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan ** ''Aphilenia parvula'' <small>Weise ''in'' Hauser, 1894</small><ref name="Hauser1894">{{cite journal|last=Hauser|first=F.|year=1894|title=Beitrag zur Coleopteren-Fauna von Transcaspien und Turkestan|url=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33124938|journal=Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift|volume=1894|issue=1|pages=17–74}}</ref> – Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan * Subgenus '''''Pseudaphilenia''''' <small>Lopatin, 1976</small> (type species: ''Aphilenia hauseri'' <small>Weise ''in'' Hauser, 1894</small>) ** ''Aphilenia lopatini'' <small>Moseyko, 2013</small><ref name="Moseyko2013"/> – Kazakhstan ** ''Aphilenia mujunkumica'' <small>Moseyko, 2013</small><ref name="Moseyko2013"/> – Kazakhstan ** ''Aphilenia unicolor'' <small>Reitter, 1889</small> (formerly a variation of ''A. interrupta''; synonym: ''A. hauseri'' <small>Weise ''in'' Hauser, 1894</small><ref name="Hauser1894"/>)<ref name="Moseyko2012"/> – Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan
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Category:Eumolpinae Category:Chrysomelidae genera Category:Beetles of Asia Category:Beetles of Europe Category:Taxa named by Julius Weise
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