{{Short description|Genus of leaf beetles}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Dematochroma panieensis Jolivet et al., 2007; Holotype; NHMUK014192253; Dorsal habitus.jpg | image_caption = ''Thasycles panieensis'' | taxon = Thasycles | display_parents = 2 | authority = Chapuis, 1874<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> | type_species = ''Thasycles cordiformis'' | type_species_authority = Chapuis, 1874 }}
'''''Thasycles''''' is a genus of leaf beetles in the subfamily Eumolpinae.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Platania|first1=L.|last2=Gómez-Zurita|first2=J.|year=2023|title=Current knowledge on the diversity of Eumolpinae (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae) in New Caledonia|journal=ZooKeys|issue=1177|pages=41–55|doi=10.3897/zookeys.1177.101293|doi-access=free|pmid=37692319 |hdl=10261/337235|hdl-access=free|pmc=10483691}}</ref> It is endemic to New Caledonia. For a long time it was treated as a synonym of ''Dematochroma'', until it was reinstated as a valid genus in 2022.<ref name="GomezZuritaPamiesHarder2022">{{cite journal|last1=Gómez-Zurita|first1=J.|last2=Pàmies-Harder|first2=M.|year=2022|title=Phylogenetic restitution and taxonomic revision of the New Caledonian endemic genus ''Thasycles'' Chapuis (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae, Eumolpinae)|journal=Zoologischer Anzeiger|volume=297|pages=16–41|doi=10.1016/j.jcz.2022.01.003|doi-access=free|hdl=10261/260681|hdl-access=free}}</ref>
==Species== Eleven species are included in the genus:<ref name="GomezZuritaPamiesHarder2022"/>
* ''Thasycles castaneus'' <small>Gómez-Zurita, 2022</small> * ''Thasycles compactus'' <small>Gómez-Zurita, 2022</small> * ''Thasycles cordiformis'' <small>Chapuis, 1874</small> * ''Thasycles fuscus'' <small>(Jolivet, Verma & Mille, 2007)</small> * ''Thasycles grandis'' <small>Gómez-Zurita, 2022</small> * ''Thasycles laboulbenei'' <small>(Montrouzier, 1861)</small> * ''Thasycles magnus'' <small>Gómez-Zurita, 2022</small> * ''Thasycles panieensis'' <small>(Jolivet, Verma & Mille, 2007)</small><ref>{{cite journal|first1=P.|last1=Jolivet|first2=K.K.|last2=Verma|first3=C.|last3=Mille|year=2007|title=New Genera and Species of Eumolpinae from New Caledonia (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae)|url=http://www.bio-nica.info/biblioteca/Jolivet2007Eumolpinae.PDF|journal=Revue Française d'Entomologie |series=Nouvelle Série|volume=29|issue=2–3|pages=77–92}}</ref> * ''Thasycles puncticollis'' <small>Gómez-Zurita, 2022</small> * ''Thasycles tenuis'' <small>Gómez-Zurita, 2022</small> * ''Thasycles variegatus'' <small>Gómez-Zurita, 2022</small>
==References== {{Reflist}}
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Category:Eumolpinae Category:Chrysomelidae genera Category:Beetles of Oceania Category:Insects of New Caledonia Category:Taxa named by Félicien Chapuis Category:Endemic fauna of New Caledonia
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