# Timentes

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***Timentes*** is a genus of [leaf beetles](/source/Leaf_beetle) in the subfamily [Eumolpinae](/source/Eumolpinae).[2] It contains only one species, ***Timentes camerunensis***, from [Cameroon](/source/Cameroon) and possibly [Tanzania](/source/Tanzania). It is closely related to *[Thysbina](/source/Thysbina)*.

The genus was originally erected by Brian J. Selman for a single species, *Timentes flavipes*. According to Selman, the genus and species were originally named by [Julius Weise](/source/Julius_Weise) at an unknown date (probably 1885–6), from material in the [Jacoby](/source/Martin_Jacoby) collection found at the [Natural History Museum, London](/source/Natural_History_Museum,_London). However, they were not described until 1965 by Selman himself, who preserved Weise's names for them. The [holotype](/source/Holotype) of *T. flavipes* has a label that gives its locality as "East Africa" without further indication, though it was thought by Selman to probably come from [Tanganyika](/source/Tanzania_Mainland) in [Tanzania](/source/Tanzania).[1]

In 2019, Stefano Zoia found that *Timentes flavipes* was a junior synonym of *Thysbina camerunensis*, a species described by [Maurice Pic](/source/Maurice_Pic) from [Edéa](/source/Ed%C3%A9a), Cameroon in 1953, and moved the latter species to *Timentes*.[3]

## References

1. Selman, B. J. (1965). ["A revision of the Nodini and a key to the genera of Eumolpidae of Africa (Coleoptera: Eumolpidae)"](https://archive.org/download/biostor-86049/biostor-86049.pdf). *Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology*. **16** (3): 141–174. [doi:10.5962/bhl.part.21864](https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.part.21864)

1. ["Timentes"](http://www.chrysomelidae.it/afr_Eum/genere_Timentes.html). *African Eumolpinae site*. Retrieved 12 July 2018.

1. Zoia, S. (2019). "Nomenclature changes in African Eumolpinae with reference to type specimens preserved in the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae)". *[Annales de la Société Entomologique de France](/source/Annales_de_la_Soci%C3%A9t%C3%A9_Entomologique_de_France)*. **55** (1): 61–86. Nouvelle Série. [Bibcode:2019AnSEF..55...61Z](https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2019AnSEF..55...61Z). [doi:10.1080/00379271.2018.1556119](https://doi.org/10.1080/00379271.2018.1556119). [S2CID 155689938](https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:155689938)

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