{{Short description|Genus of leaf beetles from the West Indies and Mexico}} {{Automatic taxobox | taxon = Chalcosicya | authority = Blake, 1930<ref name="Blake1930">{{cite journal|last=Blake|first=D. H.|year=1930|title=Synonymies of Antillean Chrysomelidae, with descriptions of new species|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/50587678|journal=Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomological Society|volume=25|pages=209–223}}</ref> | display_parents = 2 | type_species = ''Chalcosicya maestrensis'' | type_species_authority = Blake, 1930 }}
'''''Chalcosicya''''' is a genus of leaf beetles in the subfamily Eumolpinae. It is mainly known from the West Indies, though one species is found in southern Mexico. It has recently been thought to be a sister genus to the Mediterranean ''Colaspidea'', with ''Colaspina'' as a sister genus to the former two combined.<ref name="Flowers2012">{{cite journal|last=Flowers|first=R. Wills|year=2012|title=''Chalcosicya maya'' n. sp, a new Mexican species (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Eumolpinae) and its implications for morphology and biogeography|url=http://journals.fcla.edu/mundi/article/download/0209/74464|journal=Insecta Mundi|issue=209|pages=1–9|access-date=2018-12-21|archive-date=2018-12-21|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181221182446/http://journals.fcla.edu/mundi/article/download/0209/74464|url-status=dead}}</ref>
The genus was first erected by the American entomologist Doris Holmes Blake in 1930 for a single new species from Cuba. In subsequent publications by Blake, she described more than 20 additional species of the genus from various islands in the West Indies. In 2012, a species of ''Chalcosicya'' was described from southern Mexico by R. Wills Flowers, expanding the range of the genus to the mainland of North America.<ref name="Flowers2012"/>
Beetles in the genus are small in size (less than 4 mm) and have a robust, ovate body. They have a black, dark bronze, green or blue color, and are covered in scale-like hairs or setae.<ref name="Flowers2012"/>
==Species== {{div col|colwidth=25em}} * ''Chalcosicya acuminata'' <small>Blake, 1951</small><ref name="Blake1951">{{cite journal|last=Blake|first=D. H.|year=1951|title=A revision of the beetles of the genus ''Chalcosicya'' Blake (Chrysomelidae) from the West Indies|url=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/28878414|journal=Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology|volume=106|issue=7|pages=287–317}}</ref> * ''Chalcosicya alayoi'' <small>Blake, 1960</small><ref name="Blake1958">{{cite journal|last=Blake|first=D. H.|year=1958|publication-date=July 29, 1960|title=Some New West Indian Eumolpid Beetles|journal=Psyche: A Journal of Entomology|volume=65|issue=4|pages=91–98|doi=10.1155/1958/64819|doi-access=free}}</ref> * ''Chalcosicya androsensis'' <small>Blake, 1965</small><ref name="Blake1965">{{cite journal|last=Blake|first=D. H.|year=1965|title=Twelve new species of chrysomelid beetles from the West Indies (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae)|url=http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/bitstream/handle/2246/3315//v2/dspace/ingest/pdfSource/nov/N2217.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y|journal=American Museum Novitates|issue=2217|pages=1–13|hdl=2246/3315}}</ref> * ''Chalcosicya aptera'' <small>Blake, 1951</small><ref name="Blake1951"/> * ''Chalcosicya constanzae'' <small>Blake, 1951</small><ref name="Blake1951"/> * ''Chalcosicya convexa'' <small>Blake, 1951</small><ref name="Blake1951"/> * ''Chalcosicya crotonis'' <small>(Fabricius, 1792)</small> ** ''Chalcosicya crotonis'' var. ''acuta'' <small>Blake, 1951</small><ref name="Blake1951"/> ** ''Chalcosicya crotonis'' var. ''angularis'' <small>Blake, 1951</small><ref name="Blake1951"/> ** ''Chalcosicya crotonis'' var. ''parguerensis'' <small>Blake, 1951</small><ref name="Blake1951"/> ** ''Chalcosicya crotonis'' var. ''septentrionalis'' <small>Blake, 1951</small><ref name="Blake1951"/> * ''Chalcosicya darlingtoni'' <small>Blake, 1951</small><ref name="Blake1951"/> * ''Chalcosicya ditrichota'' <small>Blake, 1938</small><ref name="Blake1938">{{cite journal|last=Blake|first=D. H.|year=1938|title=Eight new species of West Indian Chrysomelidae|url=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/57052232|journal=Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington|volume=40|issue=2|pages=44–52}}</ref> * ''Chalcosicya eleutherae'' <small>Blake, 1951</small><ref name="Blake1951"/> * ''Chalcosicya farri'' <small>Blake, 1966</small><ref name="Blake1966">{{cite journal|last=Blake|first=D. H.|year=1966|title=Ten new chrysomelid beetles form the West Indies and Key West|url=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/26389079|journal=Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington|volume=68|issue=3|pages=213–222}}</ref> * ''Chalcosicya fraterna'' <small>Blake, 1951</small><ref name="Blake1951"/> * ''Chalcosicya gemina'' <small>Blake, 1951</small><ref name="Blake1951"/> * ''Chalcosicya glabra'' <small>Blake, 1951</small><ref name="Blake1951"/> * ''Chalcosicya grandis'' <small>Blake, 1951</small><ref name="Blake1951"/> * ''Chalcosicya humeralis'' <small>Blake, 1971</small><ref name="Blake1971">{{cite journal|last=Blake|first=D. H.|year=1971|title=Fifteen new West Indian chrysomelid beetles|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16245980|journal=Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington|volume=73|issue=3|pages=269–282}}</ref> * ''Chalcosicya insularis'' <small>(Blatchley, 1922)</small> * ''Chalcosicya maestrensis'' <small>Blake, 1930</small><ref name="Blake1930"/> * ''Chalcosicya maya'' <small>Flowers, 2012</small><ref name="Flowers2012"/> * ''Chalcosicya nana'' <small>(Suffrian, 1866)</small> * ''Chalcosicya parsoni'' <small>Blake, 1951</small><ref name="Blake1951"/> * ''Chalcosicya parvula'' <small>Blake, 1951</small><ref name="Blake1951"/> * ''Chalcosicya plana'' <small>Blake, 1951</small><ref name="Blake1951"/> * ''Chalcosicya rotundata'' <small>Blake, 1938</small><ref name="Blake1938"/> * ''Chalcosicya semicostata'' <small>Blake, 1951</small><ref name="Blake1951"/> * ''Chalcosicya senilis'' <small>Blake, 1951</small><ref name="Blake1951"/> * ''Chalcosicya setosella'' <small>Blake, 1971</small><ref name="Blake1971"/> * ''Chalcosicya teres'' <small>Blake, 1951</small><ref name="Blake1951"/> * ''Chalcosicya truncata'' <small>Blake, 1951</small><ref name="Blake1951"/> * ''Chalcosicya villosa'' <small>Blake, 1951</small><ref name="Blake1951"/> {{div col end}}
Synonyms: * ''Chalcosicya costata'' <small>Blake, 1938</small><ref name="Blake1938"/> is a synonym of ''Chalcosicya insularis'' <small>(Blatchley, 1922)</small><ref name="Blake1951"/>
==References== {{Reflist}}
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