Beltia

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Beltia
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Infraorder: Cucujiformia
Family: Chrysomelidae
Subfamily: Eumolpinae
Tribe: Eumolpini
Genus: Beltia
Jacoby, 1881 [1]
Type species
Beltia nicaraguensis
Jacoby, 1881

Beltia is a genus of leaf beetles in the subfamily Eumolpinae. It is known from the Neotropical realm. It was first erected by Martin Jacoby in 1881 for a single species from Nicaragua. In 2018, it was redefined to include fourteen new species from Central America and northwestern South America, as well as four species transferred from Colaspoides . [2]

Species

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Jacoby, M. (1881). "Eumolpidae". Insecta. Coleoptera. Biologia Centrali-Americana . Vol. 6. pp. 105–187.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Flowers, R. Wills (2018). "A review of the genus Beltia Jacoby (Chrysomelidae: Eumolpinae: Eumolpini), with descriptions of fourteen new species from Costa Rica, Panama, and northwestern South America". Insecta Mundi (672): 1–43.
  3. Bechyné, J. (1953). "Katalog der neotropischen Eumolpiden (Col. Phytoph. Chrysomeloidea)". Entomologische Arbeiten aus dem Museum G. Frey (in German). 4: 26–303.
  4. 1 2 Bechyné, J. (1950). "Eumolpides Américains nouveaux ou peu connus" (PDF). Entomologischen Arbeiten aus dem Museum G. Frey. 1: 205–238. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2018-09-23. Retrieved 2018-12-21.