Colaspoides Temporal range: Eocene–recent, | |
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Colaspoides fulgida , Brazil | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Coleoptera |
Suborder: | Polyphaga |
Infraorder: | Cucujiformia |
Family: | Chrysomelidae |
Subfamily: | Eumolpinae |
Tribe: | Eumolpini |
Genus: | Colaspoides Laporte, 1833 [2] |
Type species | |
Cryptocephalus limbatus Fabricius, 1781 | |
Species | |
See text | |
Synonyms [3] | |
Colaspoides is a genus of leaf beetles in the subfamily Eumolpinae. It is one of the largest genera in the subfamily, containing over 260 species worldwide. [6] It is an extant genus but there is at least one species, C. eocenicus, found in Baltic amber from the Upper Eocene of Russia, [7] and the genus has also been reported from the Miocene of the Dominican Republic. [1]
The Neotropical species of Colaspoides, including the type species, lack elytra-locking grooves on the pygidium, unlike in the Asian species and in similar-looking Neotropical Eumolpinae genera such as Beltia . According to Flowers (2018), this suggests that the Asian species of Colaspoides should be transferred to different genera. [8]
The genus contains the following species: [9]
Neotropical species: [10] [11]
Palaearctic, Indomalaysian and Australasian species: [21] [6] [22]
Renamed species:
Synonyms: