Aoria (beetle)

Aoria
Aoria scutellaris , South Korea
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Infraorder:	Cucujiformia
Family:	Chrysomelidae
Subfamily:	Eumolpinae
Tribe:	Bromiini
Genus:	Aoria Baly, 1863 [1]
Type species
Adoxus nigripes Baly, 1860
Synonyms
Pseudaoriana Pic, 1930

Aoria is a genus of leaf beetles in the subfamily Eumolpinae. Members of the genus are distributed in East and Southeast Asia. ^{[2] [3] [4]} Food plants are known for only a few species, all of which were recorded from Vitaceae. ^[5]

Four genera similar to Aoria are known: Aloria , Enneaoria , Osnaparis and Pseudaoria . Osnaparis is regarded as a subgenus of Aoria by some researchers. ^[6] In a revision of the genus Aoria in 2012, L. N. Medvedev included both Osnaparis and Pseudaoria as subgenera of Aoria, and treated Enneaoria as a synonym of Aloria. ^[5]

Species

Subgenus Aoria Baly, 1863

• Aoria annulipes Pic, 1935 – China
• Aoria antennata Chen, 1940 – East China (Zhejiang, Jiangxi)
• Aoria atra Pic, 1923 – Southwest China (Yunnan), North Vietnam
• Aoria bicoloripes Pic, 1935 – Vietnam
• Aoria bowringii (Baly, 1860) ^[7] – South China, Indochina, Taiwan, India, Burma, Malacca, Borneo
• Aoria brancuccii Medvedev, 2012 ^[5] – North India
• Aoria carinata Tan, 1993 – Central China (Hunan)
• Aoria costata Tan, 1992 – Central China (Hunan)
• Aoria cuprea Medvedev, 2012 ^[5] – Southwest China (Sichuan, Yunnan)
• Aoria cyanea Chen, 1940 – Northwest China (Gansu)
• Aoria fulva Medvedev, 2012 ^[5] – North China (Shanxi)
• Aoria fulvula Medvedev, 2012 ^[8] – North Vietnam
• Aoria gracilicornis Chen, 1940 – East China (Shandong)
• Aoria heinzi Medvedev, 2012 ^[5] – Southwest China (Sichuan)
• Aoria humeralis Medvedev, 2019 ^[9] – North Vietnam
• Aoria marginipennis Medvedev, 2012 ^[5] – Southwest China (Sichuan)
• Aoria martensi Medvedev, 2012 ^[5] – Northwest China (Shaanxi)
• Aoria nepalica Medvedev & Sprecher-Uebersax, 1997 – Nepal
• Aoria nigripennis Gressitt & Kimoto, 1961 – South China: (Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi)
• Aoria nigripes (Baly, 1860) ^[7] – South China, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, Burma, India, Nepal, Taiwan, Malacca, Sumatra
• Aoria nigromarginata Medvedev, 2012 ^[5] – South China (Fujian)
• Aoria panfilovi Medvedev, 2012 ^[5] – Southwest China (Sichuan)
• Aoria rufotestacea Fairmaire, 1889 – South China (Xikang, Guizhou, Hubei, Jiangsu, Zhejiang)
• Aoria scutellaris Pic, 1923
  • Aoria scutellaris rufipennis Pic, 1923 – Southwest China (North Sichuan)
  • Aoria scutellaris scutellaris Pic, 1923 – South-east China, west to Sichuan, north and central Vietnam
• Aoria semicostata Jacoby, 1892
• Aoria thibetana Pic, 1928 – West China (Tibet, Yunnan)
• Aoria vietnamica Medvedev, 2012 ^[5] – North Vietnam

Subgenus Osnaparis Fairmaire, 1889 (sometimes considered a separate genus)

• Aoria laosica Medvedev, 2012 ^[5] – Laos
• Aoria lushuiensis Tan, 1992 – Southwest China (Yunnan)
• Aoria montana Tan, 1992 – Southwest China (Sichuan)
• Aoria nucea (Fairmaire, 1889) – China (Xikang, Sichuan, Hubei, Jiangxi, Hebei), North Vietnam, Japan, Taiwan
• Aoria pallidipennis Pic, 1928 – North Vietnam, Taiwan, Thailand

Subgenus Pseudaoria Jacoby, 1908 ^[3] (sometimes considered a separate genus)

• Aoria burmanica (Jacoby, 1908) ^[3] – India (Manipur), Myanmar
• Aoria coerulea (Jacoby, 1908) ^[3] – India (Manipur), Myanmar
• Aoria floccosa (Tan, 1992) – Southwest China (Hengduan Mountains)
• Aoria irregulare (Tan, 1992) – Southwest China (Sichuan)
• Aoria petri (Warchałowski, 2010) ^[10] – Southwest China (Sichuan)
• Aoria rufina (Gressitt & Kimoto, 1961) – Southwest China (Sichuan)
• Aoria yunnana (Tan, 1992) – Southwest China (Yunnan)

References

1. Baly, J. S. (1863). "An attempt at a classification of the Eumolpidae". The Journal of Entomology. 2: 143–163.
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. Jacoby, M. (1908). Bingham, C. T. (ed.). Coleoptera. Chrysomelidae. Vol. 1. The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma. London: Taylor & Francis.
4. Kimoto, S.; Gressitt, J. L. (1982). "Chrysomelidae (Coleoptera) of Thailand, Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam. III. Eumolpinae" (PDF). Esakia. 18: 1–141. doi:10.5109/2421. hdl:2324/2421. S2CID   83265328.
5. Medvedev, L.N. (2012). "Revision of the genus Aoria Baly, 1863 (Chrysomelidae: Eumolpinae) from China and Indochina" (PDF). Russian Entomological Journal. 21 (1): 45–52. doi: 10.15298/rusentj.21.1.06 .
6. Moseyko, Alexey G.; Kirejtshuk, Alexander G.; Nel, Andre (2010). "New genera and new species of leaf beetles (Coleoptera: Polyphaga: Chrysomelidae) from Lowermost Eocene French amber". Annales de la Société Entomologique de France . Nouvelle Série. 46 (1–2): 116–123. doi: 10.1080/00379271.2010.10697645 .
7. Baly, J. S. (1860). "Descriptions of New Genera and Species of Eumolpidae". The Journal of Entomology. 1 (1): 23–36.
8. Medvedev, L.N. (2012). "New and interesting Chrysomelidae (Insecta: Coleoptera) from the collection of the Naturkundemuseum Erfurt" (PDF). Vernate. 31: 501–515.
9. Medvedev, L.N. (2019). "New and poorly known Oriental Chrysomelidae (Coleoptera)" (PDF). Russian Entomological Journal. 28 (2): 165–168. doi: 10.15298/rusentj.28.2.08 .
10. Warchałowski, A. (2010). "Remarks on the Genus Pseudaoria Jacoby, 1908 with Description of a New Species from China (Chrysomelidae: Eumolpinae)". Annales Zoologici . 60 (3): 337–341. doi:10.3161/000345410X535334. S2CID   84591982.