Pseudoluperus

Pseudoluperus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Infraorder:	Cucujiformia
Family:	Chrysomelidae
Genus:	Pseudoluperus Beller and Hatch, 1932
Species:	P. longulus
Binomial name
Pseudoluperus longulus (LeConte, 1857)
Synonyms
Luperus longulusLeConte, 1857 Pseudoluperus bakeriBeller & Hatch, 1932 Scelolyperus decipiensHorn, 1893

Pseudoluperus is a genus of leaf beetles in the family Chrysomelidae. ^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5]} It is monotypic, being represented by the single species, Pseudoluperus longulus, which is found in North America.

Taxonomy

In the catalogue of Wilcox (1973), Pseudoluperus constituted a heterogeneous assemblage of all sorts of Scelidites (and even a species from another section). Subsequent to that catalogue, Andrews & Gilbert (2005) added one more species to the genus, transferring Luperodes histrio from the genus Keitheatus . Species formerly included in Pseudoluperus have been transferred to the following genera: Microscelida , Scelolyperus , Synetocephalus , Amplioluperus , Cornuventer , Geethaluperus , Mexiluperus , Monoaster , Texiluperus and Trichobrotica . Furthermore, Pseudoluperus bakeri and P. decipiens have been reduced to synonyms of P. longulus, making Pseudoluperus monotypic. ^[6]

References

1. "Pseudoluperus Genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-01-27.
2. "Pseudoluperus Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-01-27.
3. White, Richard E. (1968). A Review of the Genus Cryptocephalus in America North of Mexico. Smithsonian Institution Press.
4. "North American Cryptocephalus species (Chrysomelidae, Cryptocephalinae)". Texas Entomology. Mike Quinn. Retrieved 2018-01-27.
5. Nie R-E, Bezděk J, Yang X-K (2017). "How many genera and species of Galerucinae s. str. do we know? Updated statistics (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae). In: Chaboo CS, Schmitt M (Eds) Research on Chrysomelidae 7". ZooKeys 720: 91-102.
6. Part of this text is from “New World genera of Galerucinae Latreille, 1802 (tribes Galerucini Latreille, 1802, Metacyclini Chapuis, 1875, and Luperini Gistel, 1848): an annotated list and identification key (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae)” by Keezhpattillam Viswajyothi, Shwan M. Clark. This article is licensed under the [https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ CC BY 4.0 license

• Riley, Edward G., Shawn M. Clark, and Terry N. Seeno (2003). "Catalog of the leaf beetles of America north of Mexico (Coleoptera: Megalopodidae, Orsodacnidae and Chrysomelidae, excluding Bruchinae)". Coleopterists Society Special Publication no. 1, 290.