# Parascela
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{{Short description|Genus of leaf beetles from Asia}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| taxon = Parascela
| display_parents = 2
| authority = [Baly](/source/Joseph_Sugar_Baly), 1878[{{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](/source/Zoological_Journal_of_the_Linnean_Society)|volume=14|issue=75|pages=246–265|doi=10.1111/j.1096-3642.1878.tb01834.x}}]
| type_species = ''[Pseudocolaspis cribrata](/source/Parascela_cribrata)''
| type_species_authority = [Schaufuss](/source/Ludwig_Wilhelm_Schaufuss), 1871
| synonyms_ref = [{{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 }}]
| synonyms = ''Pseudoparascela'' [Pic](/source/Maurice_Pic), 1935
}}
'''''Parascela''''' is a [genus](/source/genus) of [leaf beetle](/source/leaf_beetle)s in the subfamily [Eumolpinae](/source/Eumolpinae). It is distributed in [South](/source/South_Asia), [East](/source/East_Asia) and [Southeast](/source/Southeast_Asia) [Asia](/source/Asia).[{{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}}][{{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 }}] The genus was originally placed in the tribe [Adoxini](/source/Adoxini), but is now placed close to ''[Basilepta](/source/Basilepta)'' in the tribe [Typophorini](/source/Typophorini). ''Parascela'' differs from ''Basilepta'' by having a densely punctured [pronotum](/source/pronotum) with weak lateral carinae, and [elytra](/source/elytra) that are covered with [setae](/source/setae) or rugose, though ''Parascela'' can probably even be considered a species group within ''Basilepta''.[{{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](/source/Zootaxa)|volume=4609|issue=2|pages=321–334|doi=10.11646/zootaxa.4609.2.7|pmid=31717110|s2cid=181592799 }}]
==Species==
* ''[Parascela cribrata](/source/Parascela_cribrata)'' ([Schaufuss](/source/Ludwig_Wilhelm_Schaufuss), 1871) – Vietnam, China ([Fujian](/source/Fujian), [Guangdong](/source/Guangdong), [Hong Kong](/source/Hong_Kong), [Jiangxi](/source/Jiangxi), [Sichuan](/source/Sichuan), [Yunnan](/source/Yunnan), [Zhejiang](/source/Zhejiang)), Taiwan, [Ryukyu Islands](/source/Ryukyu_Islands)
* ''[Parascela filimonovi](/source/Parascela_filimonovi)'' Romantsov & Moseyko, 2019[{{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](/source/The_Fauna_of_British_India%2C_Including_Ceylon_and_Burma)|publisher=[Taylor & Francis](/source/Taylor_%26_Francis)|place=London}}] – [Northeast India](/source/Northeast_India) ([Assam](/source/Assam)), Southern China (Yunnan)
* ''[Parascela rugipennis](/source/Parascela_rugipennis)'' (Tan, 1988)[{{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](/source/Proceedings_of_the_Zoological_Society_of_London)|volume=1887|issue=5|pages=65–119|doi=10.1111/j.1096-3642.1887.tb02944.x}}]