Taumacera

Taumacera
Taumacera musaamani
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Suborder: Polyphaga
Infraorder: Cucujiformia
Family: Chrysomelidae
Subfamily: Galerucinae
Tribe: Luperini
Genus:
Thunberg, 1814
Type species
Taumacera deusta
Thunberg, 1814
Synonyms[1]
  • Xenarthra Baly, 1861
  • Doridea Baly, 1864
  • Platyxantha Baly, 1864
  • Thaumacera Gemminger & Harold, 1876
    (unjustified emendation)
  • Acroxena Baly, 1879
  • Neocharis Jacoby, 1881 (nec Sharp, 1877)
  • Metellus Jacoby, 1886
  • Nacrea Baly, 1886
  • Neochrolea Jacoby, 1887
  • Paraenidea Laboissière, 1933
  • Platyxanthoides Laboissière, 1933
  • Kinabalua Mohamedsaid, 1997

Taumacera is a genus of leaf beetles in the subfamily Galerucinae. The genus was described by Carl Peter Thunberg in 1814.[2] It contains about 70 species distributed in the Oriental realm. About 20 African species are also classified in Taumacera, but they may actually belong in a different genus.[1]

Species

Species included in the genus (not including those from Africa), as of 2019:[1]

  • Taumacera antennata species-group:
    • Taumacera antennata (Mohamedsaid, 1997)
    • Taumacera musaamani (Mohamedsaid, 2010)
  • Taumacera cervicornis species-group:
    • Taumacera cervicornis (Baly, 1861)
    • Taumacera lewisi (Jacoby, 1887)
    • Taumacera mirabilis (Jacoby, 1887)
    • Taumacera unicolor (Jacoby, 1887)
  • Taumacera deusta species-group:
    • Taumacera centromaculata Medvedev, 2008
    • Taumacera constricta Mohamedsaid, 2002
    • Taumacera costatipennis (Jacoby, 1896)
    • Taumacera dekatevi Reid, 2001
    • Taumacera deusta Thunberg, 1814
    • Taumacera duri Mohamedsaid, 2001
    • Taumacera evi Reid, 1999
    • Taumacera fulvicollis (Jacoby, 1881)
    • Taumacera fulvovirens (Laboissière, 1929)
    • Taumacera khalednordini Mohamedsaid, 2010
    • Taumacera laevipennis (Jacoby, 1886)
    • Taumacera maculata (Baly, 1886)
    • Taumacera midtibialis Mohamedsaid, 1998
    • Taumacera mohamedsaidi Reid, 1999
    • Taumacera seminigra Reid, 1999
    • Taumacera subapicalis Mohamedsaid, 1993
    • Taumacera sucki (Weise, 1922)
    • Taumacera tibialis Mohamedsaid, 1994
    • Taumacera uniformis (Jacoby, 1891)
    • Taumacera warisan Mohamedsaid, 1998
  • Taumacera insignis species-group:
    • Taumacera insignis (Baly, 1864)
    • Taumacera yamamotoi (Mohamedsaid, 1998)
  • Taumacera nasuta species-group:
    • Taumacera clypeata (Baly, 1888)
    • Taumacera facialis (Baly, 1886)
    • Taumacera frontalis Mohamedsaid, 2001
    • Taumacera fulva (Kimoto, 1989)
    • Taumacera indicola Bezděk, 2019
    • Taumacera kimotoi Bezděk, 2019
    • Taumacera martensi (Medvedev, 1990)
    • Taumacera medvedevi Bezděk, 2019
    • Taumacera nasuta (Baly, 1879)
    • Taumacera paradoxa (Laboissière, 1936)
    • Taumacera samoderzhenkovi (Medvedev, 1992)
  • Taumacera nigricornis species-group:
    • Taumacera nigricornis (Baly, 1864)
    • Taumacera rufomarginata (Jacoby, 1895)
    • Taumacera ventralis (Baly, 1864)
  • Taumacera viridis species-group:
    • Taumacera aureipennis (Laboissière, 1933)
    • Taumacera bella (Weise, 1922)
    • Taumacera indica (Jacoby, 1889)
    • Taumacera insularis (Gressitt & Kimoto, 1965)
    • Taumacera magenta (Gressitt & Kimoto, 1965)
    • Taumacera occipitalis (Laboissière, 1933)
    • Taumacera sumatrensis (Jacoby, 1884)
    • Taumacera variceps (Laboissière, 1933)
    • Taumacera viridis (Hope, 1831)
  • Unassigned species:
    • Taumacera antennalis Medvedev & Romantsov, 2013
    • Taumacera apicalis (Baly 1864)
    • Taumacera bifasciata (Jacoby, 1899)
    • Taumacera coxalis (Jacoby, 1899)
    • Taumacera indochinensis (Medvedev, 2004)
    • Taumacera jacobyi (Weise, 1922)
    • Taumacera javanensis (Jacoby, 1895)
    • Taumacera kinabaluensis (Mohamedsaid, 1995)
    • Taumacera monstrosa (Jacoby, 1899)
    • Taumacera multicostata (Jacoby, 1896)
    • Taumacera nagaii (Mohamedsaid, 1998)
    • Taumacera nigripennis (Jacoby, 1884)
    • Taumacera philippina (Weise, 1913)
    • Taumacera rubida (Allard, 1889)
    • Taumacera smaragdina (Duvivier, 1884)
    • Taumacera submetallica (Jacoby, 1896)
    • Taumacera sumatrana (Jacoby, 1899)
    • Taumacera suturalis (Duvivier, 1885)
    • Taumacera variabilis (Jacoby, 1891)

References

  1. ^ a b c Bezděk, J. (2019). "Taumacera revisited, with new synonyms, new combinations and a revised catalogue of the species (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae)" (PDF). Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae. 59 (1): 23–52. doi:10.2478/aemnp-2019-0003.
  2. ^ Thunberg, C. P. (1814). "Beskrifning på tvänne nye Insect-Slågten, Gnatocerus och Taumacera från Goda-Hopps Udden". Kungl. Svenska vetenskapsakademiens handlingar (in Swedish). 1814.