Eboo

{{Short description|Genus of leaf beetles from Australia}} {{Automatic taxobox | taxon = Eboo | display_parents = 2 | authority = Reid, 1993<ref name="Reid1993">{{cite journal|first=C. A. M.|last=Reid|year=1993|title=''Eboo'', nom. nov.: Redescription of Type Species (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Eumolpinae)|journal=The Coleopterists Bulletin|volume=47|issue=1|pages=61–67|jstor=4008912}}</ref> | type_species = ''Odontionopa viridula'' | type_species_authority = Erichson, 1842 | synonyms = * ''Odontionopa'' Erichson, 1842 (nec Chevrolat ''in'' Dejean, 1836) * ''Tomyris'' Chapuis, 1874 (nec Eichwald, 1831)<ref name="Chapuis1874">{{cite contribution|last=Chapuis|first=F.|year=1874|title=Tome dixième. Famille des phytophages|url=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/9655043|editor-last1=Lacordaire|editor-first1=J.T.|editor-last2=Chapuis|editor-first2=F.|encyclopedia=Histoire naturelle des Insectes. Genera des coléoptères|volume=10 |publisher=Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret|place=Paris|pages=i–iv, 1–455}}</ref> }}

'''''Eboo''''' is a genus of leaf beetles in the subfamily Eumolpinae. It is endemic to Australia and contains approximately 50 species. Many of these species show strong sexual dimorphism and feed primarily on ''Eucalyptus'' plants.<ref name="Reid1993"/>

This genus was previously known as ''Tomyris'' (named by Félicien Chapuis in 1874) or ''Odontionopa'' (named by Wilhelm Ferdinand Erichson in 1842). However, both of these names were found to be preoccupied, and the genus was renamed to ''Eboo'' by C. A. M. Reid in 1993. The generic name is a phonetic rendering of ''ibu'', the Indonesian word for "mother".<ref name="Reid1993"/>

The genus is placed in the subtribe Ebooina, also named by Reid, a replacement name for "Tomyrina".<ref name="Reid1993"/>

==Species== Species include:<ref name="Lea1915">{{cite journal|first=A. M.|last=Lea|year=1915|title=Notes on Australian Eumolpides (Coleoptera Chrysomelidae), with descriptions of new species|url=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35269260|journal=Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia|volume=39|pages=102–339}}</ref> {{div col|colwidth=26em}} * ''Eboo aenea'' (Blackburn, 1889) * ''Eboo aerata'' (Lea, 1915) * ''Eboo antennata'' (Blackburn, 1889) * ''Eboo antiqua'' (Lea, 1926)<ref name="Lea1926">{{cite journal|first=A. M.|last=Lea|year=1926|title=Notes on some miscellaneous Coleoptera with descriptions of new species. Part VI.|url=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/41571811|journal=Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia|volume=50|pages=45–84}}</ref> * ''Eboo apicicollis'' (Lea, 1915) * ''Eboo aurea'' (Lea, 1915) * ''Eboo aureoviridis'' (Lea, 1915) * ''Eboo compacta'' (Lea, 1915) * ''Eboo curnowi'' (Lea, 1915) * ''Eboo difficilis'' (Blackburn, 1889) * ''Eboo distributa'' (Lea, 1915) * ''Eboo dumbrelli'' (Lea, 1915) * ''Eboo elegantula'' (Lefèvre, 1885)<ref name="Lefevre1885">{{cite journal|last=Lefèvre|first=É.|year=1885|title=Eumolpidarum hucusque cognitarum catalogus, sectionum conspectu systematico, generum sicut et specierum nonnullarum novarum descriptionibus adjunctis|url=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/27434526|journal=Mémoires de la Société Royale des Sciences de Liège|series=2|volume=11|issue=16|pages=1–172}}</ref> * ''Eboo evanescens'' (Boheman, 1858) * ''Eboo exilis'' (Lea, 1915) * ''Eboo femoralis'' (Lea, 1915) * ''Eboo foveiventris'' (Lea, 1915) * ''Eboo foveolata'' (Baly, 1878)<ref name="Baly1878">{{cite journal|last=Baly|first=J. S.|year=1878|title=Descriptions of Genera and Species of Australian Phytophagous Beetles|url=https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article-pdf/13/72/458/17012069/j.1096-3642.1878.tb00020_459.x.pdf|journal=Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society|volume=13|issue=72|pages=458–479|doi=10.1111/j.1096-3642.1878.tb00020_459.x|doi-access=free}}</ref> * ''Eboo fugitiva'' (Lea, 1915) * ''Eboo gracilicornis'' (Lea, 1915) * ''Eboo gracilis'' (Blackburn, 1889) * ''Eboo illaetabilis'' (Lea, 1915) * ''Eboo incisa'' (Lea, 1915) * ''Eboo inconspicua'' (Lea, 1915) * ''Eboo insignis'' (Lea, 1915) * ''Eboo intermixta'' (Oke, 1932) * ''Eboo irrasa'' (Lea, 1915) * ''Eboo laeta'' (Blackburn, 1889) * ''Eboo longa'' (Lea, 1915) * ''Eboo longicornis'' (Blackburn, 1889) * ''Eboo lugubrina'' (Weise, 1923)<ref name="Weise1923">{{cite journal|last=Weise|first=J.|year=1923|title=Chrysomeliden und Coccinelliden aus Queensland|url=https://www.zin.ru/animalia/coleoptera/addpages/Andrey_Ukrainsky_Library/References_files/Weise23a.pdf|journal=Arkiv för Zoologi|volume=15|issue=12|pages=1–150}}</ref> * ''Eboo mediana'' (Lea, 1915) * ''Eboo negligens'' (Blackburn, 1889) * ''Eboo nigra'' (Lea, 1922)<ref name="Lea1922">{{cite journal|last=Lea|first=A. M.|year=1922|title=On Australian Coleoptera. Part IV. Family Chrysomelidae|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13918769|journal=Records of the South Australian Museum|volume=2|pages=271–309}}</ref> * ''Eboo obscura'' (Blackburn, 1889) * ''Eboo picticornis'' (Lea, 1915) * ''Eboo pulchella'' (Chapuis, 1874)<ref name="Chapuis1874"/> * ''Eboo pulcherrima'' (Lea, 1915) * ''Eboo pusilla'' (Lefèvre, 1885)<ref name="Lefevre1885"/> * ''Eboo queenslandica'' (Lea, 1915) * ''Eboo sculpticollis'' (Lea, 1915) * ''Eboo similis'' (Lea, 1915) * ''Eboo soror'' (Lea, 1915) * ''Eboo sublaeta'' (Lea, 1915) * ''Eboo tantilla'' (Lea, 1915) * ''Eboo tepperi'' (Lea, 1915) * ''Eboo villosa'' (Lea, 1915) * ''Eboo viridula'' (Erichson, 1842) * ''Eboo weisei'' Reid, 1993<ref name="Reid1993"/> * ''Eboo wiburdi'' (Lea, 1915) {{div col end}}

Synonyms: *''Odontionopa proxima'' Erichson, 1842: synonym of ''Eboo viridula'' (Erichson, 1842) *''Odontionopa queenslandica'' Weise, 1923, nec Lea, 1915:<ref name="Weise1923"/> renamed to ''Eboo weisei'' Reid, 1993<ref name="Reid1993"/>

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== * [https://biodiversity.org.au/afd/taxa/Eboo Genus ''Eboo'' Reid, 1993] at Australian Faunal Directory

Category:Eumolpinae Category:Chrysomelidae genera Category:Beetles of Australia

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