Phainodina

Phainodina
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Infraorder:	Cucujiformia
Family:	Chrysomelidae
Subfamily:	Eumolpinae
Tribe:	Typophorini
Genus:	Phainodina Gressitt, 1969 [1]
Type species
Rhyparida picta Baly, 1867 [2]

Phainodina is a genus of leaf beetles in the subfamily Eumolpinae, that is distributed in New Guinea. It resembles the genera Rhyparida and Rhyparidella , but differs from the former by its lack of a "Y"-shaped suture on the frontoclypeus (a combined frons and clypeus, making up part of the face), and from the latter by having a larger tooth on the underside of each femur on the legs, having a more swollen prothorax that generally lacks punctures, and being generally quite convex and evenly rounded at the sides. ^[1] The name of the genus refers to the beetles being shiny and Nodina -shaped. ^[1]

Species

• Phainodina alphiniae Gressitt, 1969 ^[1] – Western New Guinea: West Papua (Fakfak)
• Phainodina alticola Gressitt, 1969 ^[1] – Papua New Guinea (Enga)
• Phainodina antennalis Medvedev, 2009 ^[3] – Western New Guinea: West Papua (Arfak Mountains)
• Phainodina brandtella Gressitt, 1969 ^[1] – Papua New Guinea (Western)
• Phainodina femorata Medvedev, 2009 ^[3] – Papua New Guinea (Sandaun), Western New Guinea: Highland Papua (Jayawijaya)
• Phainodina guineensis (Bryant, 1950) ^[4] – Biak, Yapen
• Phainodina ornata Gressitt, 1969 ^[1] – Papua New Guinea (Western Highlands, Chimbu, Southern Highlands), Star Mountains, Western New Guinea: Central Papua (Paniai), West Papua (Fakfak)
• Phainodina picta (Baly, 1867) ^[2] – Western New Guinea: West Papua (Manokwari, Bomberai Peninsula)
• Phainodina riedeli Medvedev, 2009 ^[3] – Western New Guinea: West Papua (Manokwari, Arfak Mountains)
• Phainodina strigicollis Medvedev, 2017 ^[5] – Western New Guinea (Bird's Head Peninsula)
• Phainodina stygica Gressitt, 1969 ^[1] – Western New Guinea: Papua (Jayapura), Biak
• Phainodina subcorrugata Gressitt, 1969 ^[1] – Western New Guinea: Central Papua (Paniai, Dogiyai)
• Phainodina thoracica Medvedev, 2017 ^[5] – Western New Guinea (Bird's Head Peninsula)

References

1. Gressitt, J. L. (1969). "Chrysomelid beetles from the Papuan subregion, 6 (Eumolpinae, 4)" (PDF). Pacific Insects . 11 (1): 1–31.
2. Baly, J. S. (1867). "Phytophaga Malayana; a revision of the phytophagous beetles of the Malay Archipelago, with descriptions of the new species collected by Mr. A. R. Wallace". Transactions of the Entomological Society of London . 3. 4: 1–300. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2311.1866.tb01857.x.
3. Medvedev, Lev N. (2009). "New genera and species of Zeugophorinae and Eumolpinae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) from New Guinea" (PDF). Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde A, Neue Serie. 2: 371–408. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-08-30. Retrieved 2018-08-01.
4. Bryant, G. E. (1950). "New species of Chrysomelidæ (Coleoptera) from New Guinea, collected by Miss L. E. Cheesman (contd.)". Annals and Magazine of Natural History . 12. 3 (27): 209–219. doi:10.1080/00222935008654708.
5. Medvedev, L. N. (2017). "New leaf beetles (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) from New Guinea". In Telnov, D. (ed.). Biodiversity, Biogeography and Nature Conservation in Wallacea and New Guinea. Vol. 3. Riga: The Entomological Society of Latvia. pp. 419–426. ISBN   9789984976884.