{{Short description|Genus of leaf beetles from Asia}} {{Automatic taxobox | taxon = Parascela | display_parents = 2 | authority = Baly, 1878<ref name="Baly1878">{{cite journal|first=J. S.|last=Baly|year=1878|title=Description of New Species and Genera of Eumolpidæ|url=https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article-pdf/14/75/246/16722611/j.1096-3642.1878.tb01834.x.pdf|journal=Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society|volume=14|issue=75|pages=246–265|doi=10.1111/j.1096-3642.1878.tb01834.x}}</ref> | type_species = ''Pseudocolaspis cribrata'' | type_species_authority = Schaufuss, 1871 | synonyms_ref = <ref name="KimotoGressitt1982">{{cite journal|last1=Kimoto|first1=S.|last2=Gressitt|first2=J. L.|year=1982|title=Chrysomelidae (Coleoptera) of Thailand, Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam. III. Eumolpinae|url=https://catalog.lib.kyushu-u.ac.jp/opac_download_md/2421/1.pdf|journal=Esakia|volume=18|pages=1–141|doi=10.5109/2421 |hdl=2324/2421|s2cid=83265328 }}</ref> | synonyms = ''Pseudoparascela'' <small>Pic, 1935</small> }}
'''''Parascela''''' is a genus of leaf beetles in the subfamily Eumolpinae. It is distributed in South, East and Southeast 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><ref name="KimotoGressitt1982">{{cite journal|last1=Kimoto|first1=S.|last2=Gressitt|first2=J. L.|year=1982|title=Chrysomelidae (Coleoptera) of Thailand, Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam. III. Eumolpinae|url=https://catalog.lib.kyushu-u.ac.jp/opac_download_md/2421/1.pdf|journal=Esakia|volume=18|pages=1–141|doi=10.5109/2421 |hdl=2324/2421|s2cid=83265328 }}</ref> The genus was originally placed in the tribe Adoxini, but is now placed close to ''Basilepta'' in the tribe Typophorini. ''Parascela'' differs from ''Basilepta'' by having a densely punctured pronotum with weak lateral carinae, and elytra that are covered with setae or rugose, though ''Parascela'' can probably even be considered a species group within ''Basilepta''.<ref name="RomantsovMoseyko2019">{{cite journal|last1=Romantsov|first1=P. V.|last2=Moseyko|first2=A. G.|year=2019|title=New and little known species of Eumolpinae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) from Northern Vietnam|journal=Zootaxa|volume=4609|issue=2|pages=321–334|doi=10.11646/zootaxa.4609.2.7|pmid=31717110|s2cid=181592799 }}</ref>
==Species== * ''Parascela cribrata'' <small>(Schaufuss, 1871)</small> – Vietnam, China (Fujian, Guangdong, Hong Kong, Jiangxi, Sichuan, Yunnan, Zhejiang), Taiwan, Ryukyu Islands * ''Parascela filimonovi'' <small>Romantsov & Moseyko, 2019</small><ref name="RomantsovMoseyko2019"/> – Northern Vietnam, Southern China (Yunnan) * ''Parascela hirsuta'' <small>(Jacoby, 1908)</small><ref name="Jacoby1908">{{cite book|last=Jacoby|first=M.|year=1908|editor-last=Bingham|editor-first=C. T.|title=Coleoptera. Chrysomelidae. Vol. 1|url=https://archive.org/details/coleopterachryso00jacoiala|series=The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma|publisher=Taylor & Francis|place=London}}</ref> – Northeast India (Assam), Southern China (Yunnan) * ''Parascela rugipennis'' <small>(Tan, 1988)</small><ref name="RomantsovMoseyko2019"/> – Southern China (Yunnan) * ''Parascela tuberosa'' <small>(Jacoby, 1887)</small><ref name="Jacoby1887">{{cite journal|last=Jacoby|first=M.|year=1887|title=Descriptions of the Phytophagous Coleoptera of Ceylon, obtained by Mr. George Lewis during the years 1881–1882|url=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/28699940|journal=Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London|volume=1887|issue=5|pages=65–119|doi=10.1111/j.1096-3642.1887.tb02944.x}}</ref><ref name="RomantsovMoseyko2019"/> – Sri Lanka
Synonyms: * ''Parascela tuberosa'' <small>Tan & Wang, 1983</small> (preoccupied by ''P. tuberosa'' <small>(Jacoby, 1887)</small>): synonym of ''Parascela rugipennis'' <small>(Tan, 1988)</small><ref name="RomantsovMoseyko2019"/>
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Category:Eumolpinae Category:Chrysomelidae genera Category:Beetles of Asia Category:Taxa named by Joseph Sugar Baly
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