Acrothinium gaschkevitchii

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Acrothinium gaschkevitchii
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Acrothinium gaschkevitchii, Tanabe City, Wakayama Pref., Japan
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Infraorder: Cucujiformia
Family: Chrysomelidae
Subfamily: Eumolpinae
Tribe: Bromiini
Genus: Acrothinium
Species:
A. gaschkevitchii
Binomial name
Acrothinium gaschkevitchii
(Motschulsky, 1861) [1]
Synonyms

Chrysochus gaschkevitchii Motschulsky, 1861

Acrothinium gaschkevitchii is a species of leaf beetle in the family Chrysomelidae. It is distributed in East Asia. [2]

Contents

Etymology

The species is named after the wife of Russian diplomat Iosif Goshkevich. She had sent Motschulsky a collection of insects from Japan, including specimens of Acrothinium gaschkevitchii, that she had collected in the vicinity of her residence at Hakodate and during her trips between Honshu and Hokkaido. [1] [3]

Subspecies

There are five subspecies of A. gaschkevitchii: [2]

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References

  1. 1 2 Motschulsky, V. de (1861). "Insectes du Japon". Études Entomologiques. 9: 4–39.
  2. 1 2 Moseyko, A. G.; Sprecher-Uebersax, E. (2010). "Eumolpinae". In Löbl, I.; Smetana, A. (eds.). Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera. Volume 6. Chrysomeloidea. Stenstrup, Denmark: Apollo Books. pp. 619–643. ISBN   978-87-88757-84-2.
  3. Marshall, T. A. (1864). "Corynodinorum Recensio". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society . 8 (29): 24–50. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1864.tb02004.x.
  4. Cho, H.-W.; An, S.L. (2020). "An annotated checklist of leaf beetles (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) of the Korean Peninsula, with comments and new records". Far Eastern Entomologist. 404: 1–36. doi: 10.25221/fee.404.1 .