{{Short description|Genus of leaf beetles from South America}} {{Use dmy dates|date=June 2019}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Freudeita cupripennis 119348503.jpg | image_caption = ''Freudeita cupripennis'' | taxon = Freudeita | display_parents = 2 | authority = Bechyné, 1950<ref name="Bechyné1950c">{{cite journal|first=J.|last=Bechyné|year=1950|title=Notes sur les Chrysomeloidea de l'Amerique du Sud et du Centre (Col. Phytoph.)|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/45935149|journal=Entomologische Arbeiten aus dem Museum G. Frey Tutzing bei München|volume=1|pages=237–269}}</ref> | type_species = ''Colaspis parellina'' | type_species_authority = Erichson, 1847 }}
'''''Freudeita''''' is a genus of leaf beetles in the subfamily Eumolpinae.<ref name="Bechyné1953">{{cite journal|last=Bechyné|first=J.|year=1953|title=Katalog der neotropischen Eumolpiden (Col. Phytoph. Chrysomeloidea)|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/49645311|journal=Entomologische Arbeiten aus dem Museum G. Frey Tutzing bei München|volume=4|pages=26–303|language=German}}</ref> It is found in South America.<ref name="Flowers1995">{{cite journal|last=Flowers|first=R. Wills|year=1995|title=Some Corrections to the Generic Records of Central American Eumolpinae (Chrysomelidae: Coleoptera)|journal=The Florida Entomologist|volume=78|issue=3|pages=553–557|doi=10.2307/3495545|jstor=3495545|url=https://journals.flvc.org/flaent/article/view/59163/56842 |doi-access=free}}</ref> The genus is dedicated to the German entomologist {{ill|Heinz Freude|de}}.<ref name="Bechyné1950c"/>
In May 2019, the New Zealand Environmental Protection Authority approved an application to introduce ''Freudeita'' cf. ''cupripennis'' as a biological control agent against the moth plant (''Araujia hortorum''), an invasive weed in New Zealand.<ref>{{cite news|title=Moth plant beetle approved for New Zealand to control noxious weed|url=https://www.newsroom.co.nz/2019/05/23/601075/moth-plant-beetle-approved-for-new-zealand-to-control-noxious-weed|work=Newsroom|date=2019-05-23|access-date=2019-06-03|language=en-AU}}</ref>
==Species== {{div col|colwidth=25em}} * ''Freudeita alternata'' <small>(Lefèvre, 1891)</small> * ''Freudeita callosa'' <small>Bechyné, 1953</small><ref name="Bechyné1953"/> * ''Freudeita chalcites'' <small>(Lefèvre, 1884)</small><ref name="Lefevre1884">{{cite journal|last=Lefèvre|first=E.|year=1884|title=Le diagnoses de nouvelles espèces d'Eumolpides|url=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/32550604|journal=Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France|series=Série 6 |volume=4 |pages=CXX–CXXI}}</ref><ref name="Bechyné1955">{{cite journal|first=J.|last=Bechyné|year=1955|title=Reise des Herrn G. Frey in Südamerika: Eumolpidae (Col. Phytophaga)|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/45918278|journal=Entomologische Arbeiten aus dem Museum G. Frey Tutzing bei München|volume=6|pages=569–657}}</ref> * ''Freudeita colligens'' <small>Bechyné, 1951</small><ref name="Bechyné1951">{{cite journal|first=J.|last=Bechyné|year=1951|title=Liste provisoire des Eumolpides de Bolivie et observations diverses sur les espèces de l'Amérique du Sud (Col. Phytophaga)|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/45935465|journal=Entomologische Arbeiten aus dem Museum G. Frey Tutzing bei München|volume=2|pages=227–352}}</ref> * ''Freudeita cruda'' <small>Bechyné, 1951</small><ref name="Bechyné1951"/> * ''Freudeita cuprinula'' <small>Bechyné, 1950</small> ** ''Freudeita cuprinula cuprinula'' <small>Bechyné, 1950</small> ** ''Freudeita cuprinula fortis'' <small>Bechyné & Bechyné, 1964</small><ref>{{cite journal|last1=Bechyné|first1=J.|last2=Springlová de Bechyné|first2=B.|year=1964|title=Notes sur quelques Chrysomeloidea Néotropicaux (Col. Phytophaga)|url=http://chrysomelidae.miza-ucv.org.ve/sites/chrysomelidae.miza-ucv.org.ve/files/1964_Separata_158.pdf|journal=Revista Brasileira de Entomologia|volume=11|pages=117–137|access-date=8 February 2019|archive-date=19 January 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190119121447/http://chrysomelidae.miza-ucv.org.ve/sites/chrysomelidae.miza-ucv.org.ve/files/1964_Separata_158.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref> ** ''Freudeita cuprinula maldonaldoi'' <small>Bechyné, 1953</small><ref name="Bechyné1953"/> * ''Freudeita cupripennis'' <small>(Lefèvre, 1877)</small> * ''Freudeita duplicata'' <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><ref name="Bechyné1955"/> * ''Freudeita interlata'' <small>Bechyné & Bechyné, 1961</small><ref name="Bechyné1961">{{cite journal|last1=Bechyné|first1=J.|last2=Springlovà de Bechyné|first2=B.|year=1961|title=Notas sobre Chrysomeloidea neotropicais|url=http://chrysomelidae.miza-ucv.org.ve/sites/chrysomelidae.miza-ucv.org.ve/files/1961_Separata_151.pdf|journal=Boletim do Museu Paraense Emilio Goeldi|series=New Series|volume=33|pages=1–49|access-date=8 February 2019|archive-date=19 January 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190119121108/http://chrysomelidae.miza-ucv.org.ve/sites/chrysomelidae.miza-ucv.org.ve/files/1961_Separata_151.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref> * ''Freudeita iracunda'' <small>Bechyné, 1950</small><ref>{{cite journal|last=Bechyné|first=J.|year=1950|title=Notes sur les Eumolpides néotropicaux des collections de l'Institut royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique|url=http://new-biblio.naturalsciences.be/rbins-publications/bulletin-of-the-royal-belgian-institute-of-natural-sciences-bulletin-de-linstitut-royal-des-sciences-naturelles-de-belgique-bulletin-van-het-koninklijk-belgisch-instituut-voor-natuurwetenschappen/26-1950/irscnb_p4087_01013ap_26_bulletin-54.pdf|journal=Bulletin of the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences|volume=26|issue=54|pages=1–24}}</ref> * ''Freudeita macroscopia'' <small>Bechyné, 1954</small><ref name="Bechyné1954">{{cite journal|last=Bechyné|first=J.|year=1954|title=La liste des Eumolpides de Rio Grande do Sul (Brésil) et observations diverses sur les espéces néotropicales|url=http://chrysomelidae.miza-ucv.org.ve/sites/chrysomelidae.miza-ucv.org.ve/files/1954_Separata_101.pdf|journal=Arquivos do Museu Paranaense|volume=10|pages=141–226|access-date=8 February 2019|archive-date=30 March 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190330233101/http://chrysomelidae.miza-ucv.org.ve/sites/chrysomelidae.miza-ucv.org.ve/files/1954_Separata_101.pdf|url-status=dead}} (note: pages 196–199 are missing in the PDF)</ref> * ''Freudeita parellina'' <small>(Erichson, 1847)</small> * ''Freudeita peruviana'' <small>(Bowditch, 1921)</small> * ''Freudeita plaumanni'' <small>Bechyné, 1951</small><ref name="Bechyné1951"/> * ''Freudeita porosa'' <small>(Jacoby, 1900)</small> * ''Freudeita proligens'' <small>Bechyné, 1951</small><ref name="Bechyné1951"/> * ''Freudeita subopaca'' <small>Bechyné, 1950</small><ref name="Bechyné1950c"/><ref name="BechynéBechyné1969">{{cite journal|last1=Bechyné|first1=J.|last2=Springlovà de Bechyné|first2=B.|year=1969|title=Notas sobre Phytophaga americanos (Coleoptera)|url=http://chrysomelidae.miza-ucv.org.ve/sites/chrysomelidae.miza-ucv.org.ve/files/1969_Separata_179.pdf|journal=Revista de la Facultad de Agronomía (Maracay)|volume=3|pages=5–64|access-date=8 February 2019|archive-date=2 September 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180902091241/http://chrysomelidae.miza-ucv.org.ve/sites/chrysomelidae.miza-ucv.org.ve/files/1969_Separata_179.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref> * ''Freudeita violacea'' <small>(Lefèvre, 1877)</small> ** ''Freudeita violacea cyaneoazurea'' <small>Bechyné, 1951</small><ref name="Bechyné1951"/> ** ''Freudeita violacea subnitida'' <small>Bechyné, 1950</small><ref name="Bechyné1950c"/> ** ''Freudeita violacea violacea'' <small>(Lefèvre, 1877)</small> * ''Freudeita viridipes'' <small>(Lefèvre, 1877)</small> ** ''Freudeita viridipes cyanea'' <small>(Lefèvre, 1885)</small> ** ''Freudeita viridipes viridipes'' <small>(Lefèvre, 1877)</small> {{div col end}}
Synonyms: * ''Freudeita balyi'' <small>(Jacoby, 1881)</small>:<ref name="Jacoby1881">{{cite encyclopedia|last=Jacoby|first=M.|year=1881|chapter=Eumolpidae|chapter-url=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/584677|title=Insecta. Coleoptera|encyclopedia=Biologia Centrali-Americana|volume=6|issue=1|pages=105–187}}</ref><ref name="BechynéBechyné1969"/> moved back to ''Colaspis''<ref name="Flowers1995"/> * ''Freudeita dentifera'' <small>Bechyné, 1951</small>:<ref name="Bechyné1951"/> moved to ''Colaspis''<ref name="Flowers1995"/> * ''Freudeita melancholica'' <small>(Jacoby, 1881)</small>:<ref name="Jacoby1881"/><ref name="BechynéBechyné1969"/> moved back to ''Colaspis''<ref name="Flowers1995"/> * ''Freudeita violacea consentanea'' <small>(Lefèvre, 1891)</small>: synonym of ''Freudeita violacea'' <small>(Lefèvre, 1877)</small><ref name="Bechyné1954"/>
==References== {{Reflist}}
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Category:Eumolpinae Category:Chrysomelidae genera Category:Beetles of South America
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