{{Short description|Genus of leaf beetles from South America}} {{Automatic taxobox | taxon = Eupetale | display_parents = 2 | authority = Flowers, 2021<ref name="Flowers2021">{{cite journal|last=Flowers|first=R.W.|year=2021|title=A New Genus for Two Orphaned Species of ''Lycaste'' Gistel (Coleoptera: Chryssomelidae: Eumolpinae)|url=http://zoobank.org/?lsid=urn:lsid:zoobank.org:CBC66636-0058-4B2B-9F92-939A91C626A9|journal=The Coleopterists Bulletin|volume=75|issue=3|pages=700–701|doi=10.1649/0010-065X-75.3.700|s2cid=245386230 }}</ref> | type_species = ''Lycaste trichoa'' | type_species_authority = Gistel, 1848<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Monrós|first1=F.|last2=Bechyné|first2=J.|year=1956|title=Uber einige verkannte Chrysomeliden-Namen|journal=Entomologischen Arbeiten aus dem Museum Georg Frey|url=http://chrysomelidae.miza-ucv.org.ve/sites/chrysomelidae.miza-ucv.org.ve/files/1956_Separata_117.pdf|volume=7|pages=1118–1137|access-date=2019-02-06|archive-date=2018-10-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181027021711/http://chrysomelidae.miza-ucv.org.ve/sites/chrysomelidae.miza-ucv.org.ve/files/1956_Separata_117.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref> }}

'''''Eupetale''''' is a genus of leaf beetles in the subfamily Eumolpinae. It contains two species known from South America.<ref name="Flowers2021"/>

The original name used for this genus was ''Lycaste'' Gistel, 1848, which was later found to be an unnecessary new replacement name for ''Chalcophana''. Additionally, ''Lycaste'' Gistel, 1848 is a junior homonym of ''Lycaste'' Gistel, 1834 in Buprestidae (a synonym of ''Polycesta''), and ''Lycaste'' Agassiz, 1846 in Crustacea (an emendation of ''Lycesta'' Savigny, 1816, which is a synonym of ''Leucothoe'').<ref>{{cite journal|last=Bezděk|first=J.|year=2020|title=Review of the genus-level names proposed by Johannes Gistel in Chrysomelidae (Coleoptera)|journal=Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae|volume=60|issue=1|pages=173–188|doi=10.37520/aemnp.2020.011|doi-access=free}}</ref> In 2021, Flowers proposed a new name for the genus, ''Eupetale'', for the two species formerly placed in ''Lycaste'' Gistel, 1848.<ref name="Flowers2021"/> Under the name ''Lycaste'', ''Callicolaspis'' was formerly considered a synonym of the genus, but in 2003 ''Callicolaspis'' was restored as a separate genus.<ref name="Flowers2003">{{cite journal|last=Flowers|first=R. W.|year=2003|title=Notes on the genus ''Lycaste'' Gistl, and resurrection of ''Callicolaspis'' Bechyné (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Eumolpinae)|url=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16212472|journal=Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington|volume=105|issue=4|pages=925–932}}</ref>

==Species== The genus contains only two species:<ref name="Flowers2003"/><ref name="Flowers2021"/> * ''Eupetale eumolpoides'' <small>(Lefèvre, 1877)</small><ref name="Lefevre1877">{{cite journal|last=Lefèvre|first=E.|year=1877|title=Descriptions de coléoptères nouveaux ou peu connus de la famille des Eumolpides (1re partie)|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8244443|journal=Annales de la Société Entomologique de France|series=5|volume=7|pages=115–166}}</ref> * ''Eupetale trichoa'' <small>(Gistel, 1848)</small> (Synonym: ''Prionodera metallica'' <small>Jacoby, 1884</small>)

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Category:Eumolpinae Category:Chrysomelidae genera Category:Beetles of South America

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