Eurypelta

Eurypelta
Eurypelta modesta , Sri Lanka
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Infraorder:	Cucujiformia
Family:	Chrysomelidae
Subfamily:	Eumolpinae
Tribe:	Bromiini
Genus:	Eurypelta Lefèvre, 1885 [1]
Type species
Euraspis vittatus (= Chrysomela modesta Fabricius, 1792) Chapuis, 1874
Synonyms
Euraspis Chapuis, 1874 (nec Blanchard, 1851) [2]

Eurypelta is a genus of leaf beetles in the subfamily Eumolpinae. It is known from India. ^[3]

The genus was originally named Euraspis by Félicien Chapuis in 1874. However, the name was determined to be a spelling error of Euryaspis, which was preoccupied by the beetle genus Euryaspis Blanchard, 1851, so Chapuis's genus was renamed to Eurypelta by Édouard Lefèvre in 1885. ^[1]

Species

• Eurypelta modesta (Fabricius, 1792)
• Eurypelta splendida Medvedev, 2018 ^[4]

References

1. Lefèvre, É. (1885). "Eumolpidarum hucusque cognitarum catalogus, sectionum conspectu systematico, generum sicut et specierum nonnullarum novarum descriptionibus adjunctis". Mémoires de la Société Royale des Sciences de Liège. 2. 11 (16): 1–172.
2. Chapuis, F. (1874). "Tome dixième. Famille des phytophages". In Lacordaire, J.T.; Chapuis, F. (eds.). Histoire naturelle des Insectes. Genera des coléoptères. Paris: Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret. pp. i–iv, 1–455.
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. Medvedev, L.N. (2018). "New taxa of Chrysomelidae (Coleoptera) from South India" (PDF). Caucasian Entomological Bulletin. 14 (2): 249–251. doi: 10.23885/181433262018142-249251 .