Chloropterus

Chloropterus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Infraorder:	Cucujiformia
Family:	Chrysomelidae
Subfamily:	Eumolpinae
Tribe:	Typophorini
Genus:	Chloropterus Morawitz, 1861 [1]
Type species
Heterocnemis versicolor Morawitz, 1860
Synonyms
Heterocnemis Morawitz, 1860 (nec Albers, 1852) [2] Nodostoma Jacquelin du Val, 1868

Chloropterus is a genus of leaf beetles in the subfamily Eumolpinae. ^[3] It is distributed in Eastern Europe, West to Central Asia and North Africa. ^{[4] [5]}

The genus was originally established under the name Heterocnemis by the Russian entomologist Ferdinand Morawitz in 1860 for a single species, Heterocnemis versicolor . However, the name Heterocnemis had already been used for a genus of flower chafers (Cetoniinae), so Morawitz renamed his genus to Chloropterus the following year.

Species

• Chloropterus bimaculatus (Raffray, 1873) ^[6] – Algeria, Morocco
• Chloropterus fiorii Ruffo, 1965 – Libya
• Chloropterus grandis Weise, 1889 – Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, China (Xinjiang), Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Russia (west Siberia)
• Chloropterus inornatus (Chen, 1935) ^[7] – China (Xinjiang)
• Chloropterus lefevrei Reitter, 1890 ^[8]
  • Chloropterus lefevrei arabicus Lopatin, 2008 ^[9] – United Arab Emirates
  • Chloropterus lefevrei lefevrei Reitter, 1890 ^[8] – Azerbaijan, Iran, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan
• Chloropterus mateui (Selman, 1969) ^{[10] [11]} – Algeria
• Chloropterus moldaviensis Pic, 1909 – Romania
• Chloropterus ornatus Lopatin, 1984 – Iran, Iraq
• Chloropterus pallidus Chobaut, 1898 ^[12] – Algeria
• Chloropterus persicus (Baly, 1878) ^{[13] [11]} – Iran
• Chloropterus politus Berti & Rapilly, 1973 – Iran, Oman
• Chloropterus stigmaticollis Fairmaire, 1875 – Tunisia
• Chloropterus unguiculatus Lopatin, 1977 – Tajikistan
• Chloropterus versicolor (Morawitz, 1860) ^[2] – Ukraine, southern European Russia, Turkey, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan

References

1. Morawitz, F. (1861). "Zur Kenntniss der russischen Eumolpiden". Horae Societatis Entomologicae Rossicae. 1: 159–164.
2. Morawitz, F. (1860). "Beschreibung einiger neuen Chrysomeliden aus der Umgegend von Sarepta". Bulletin de la Société impériale des naturalistes de Moscou. 33 (1): 298–302.
3. "Chloropterus". African Eumolpinae site. Retrieved 10 July 2018.
4. 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.
5. Aslan, E. G.; Beenen, R.; Bayram, F.; Aslan, B. (2013). "Chloropterus versicolor (Morawitz) in Turkey: Indigeneity Confirmed (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae)". Journal of the Entomological Research Society . 15 (2): 113–116.
6. Fairmaire, L.; Raffray, A. (1873). "Coléoptères du nord de l'Afrique". Revue et magasin de zoologie pure et appliquée. 3. 1: 331–385.
7. 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.
8. Reitter, E. (1890). "Beschreibungen neuer Coleopteren aus Europa, dem Kaukasus, Russisch-Armenien und Turkestan". Wiener Entomologische Zeitung. 9: 189–198.
9. Lopatin, I. (2008). "Order Coleoptera, family Chrysomelidae". Arthropod Fauna of the UAE. 1: 312–324. CiteSeerX   10.1.1.527.5258 .
10. 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.
11. 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 .
12. Chobaut, A. (1898). "Description d'un Eumolpide nouveau du Sahara algérien". Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France . 1898: 208–209.
13. 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.