Hermesia (beetle)

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Hermesia
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Infraorder: Cucujiformia
Family: Chrysomelidae
Subfamily: Eumolpinae
Tribe: Eumolpini
Genus: Hermesia
Lefèvre, 1877 [1]
Type species
Colaspis aurata
Olivier, 1808

Hermesia is a genus of leaf beetles in the subfamily Eumolpinae. It is found in Central America and South America.

The genus was previously considered a synonym of Hylax , but in 1995 it was restored as a separate genus. [2]

Species

As of 1995, Hermesia contains three species: [2]

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References

  1. Lefèvre, E. (1877). "La description suivante d'un genre nouveau de coléoptères, appartenant à la famille des eumolpides". Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France : clxxviii–clxxix.
  2. 1 2 Flowers, R. Wills (1995). "Hermesia Lefèvre, a resurrected genus of neotropical Eumolpinae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae)". Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington . 97 (1): 35–45.