Atomyria

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Atomyria
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Chrysomelidae
Subfamily: Eumolpinae
Tribe: Typophorini
Genus: Atomyria
Jacobson, 1894 [1]
Type species
Nodostoma sarafschanica
Solsky, 1881

Atomyria is a genus of leaf beetles in the subfamily Eumolpinae. It is distributed in Central Asia and Iran. [2] [3] In 2012, the genus was moved from the tribe Bromiini to the tribe Nodinini (now known as Typophorini). [4] In 2020, the genus was revised by A. G. Moseyko, who described a new species and transferred two species to Chloropterus , leaving only two valid species remaining within Atomyria. [3]

Members of the genus inhabit tugai forests. [4] The known distribution of Atomyria also corresponds very closely with the distribution of the desert shrub genus Tamarix . [5]

Species

Atomyria includes only two valid species: [3]

The following species were formerly included, but have since been transferred to the genus Chloropterus . [3]

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References

  1. Jacobson, G. G. (1894). "Zur Chrysomeliden - Fauna der Umgegend vom See Issyk-kul". Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift . 1894 (1): 97–107.
  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. 1 2 3 4 Moseyko, A.G. (2020). "A revision of the genus Atomyria Jacobson, 1894 (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Eumolpinae)". Caucasian Entomological Bulletin. 16 (2): 341–346. doi: 10.23885/181433262020162-341346 .
  4. 1 2 Moseyko, A. G. (2012). "Comments on the genus Aphilenia Weise in Reitter, 1889 (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Eumolpinae), with a description of a new species from Russia". Entomological Review. 92 (7): 773–781. doi:10.1134/S0013873812070044. S2CID   15377841.
  5. 1 2 Selman, B. J. (1969). "Atomyria Jacobson (Coleoptera, Eumolpinae), a genus new to Africa". Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle . 2. 41 (1): 200–202.
  6. Baly, J. S. (1878). "Description of New Species and Genera of Eumolpidæ" (PDF). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society . 14 (75): 246–265. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1878.tb01834.x.