Pseudotheopea

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Pseudotheopea
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Pseudotheopea smaragdina
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Infraorder: Cucujiformia
Family: Chrysomelidae
Subfamily: Galerucinae
Tribe: Luperini
Subtribe: Luperina
Genus: Pseudotheopea
Lee & Bezdek, 2020
Type species
Theopea sauteri
Chûjô, 1935

Pseudotheopea is a genus of skeletonizing leaf beetles in the family Chrysomelidae. There are more than 20 described species in Pseudotheopea, found in Indomalaya and the Palearctic. [1] [2] It is closely related to the genus Theopea .

Species

These 24 species belong to the genus Pseudotheopea, divided into three species groups (with five other species currently unassigned to any group): [1] [2]

Pseudotheopea sauteri group:

Pseudotheopea coerulea (Gressitt & Kimoto, 1963) (China)
Pseudotheopea geiseri (Lee & Bezděk, 2018) (India)
Pseudotheopea hainanensis (Lee & Bezděk, 2018) (China)
Pseudotheopea laosensis (Lee & Bezděk, 2018) (China, Laos, Vietnam)
Pseudotheopea sauteri (Chûjô, 1935) (Taiwan)
Pseudotheopea sekerkai (Lee & Bezděk, 2018) (Laos)

Pseudotheopea costata group:

Pseudotheopea aeneipennis (Gressitt & Kimoto, 1963) (China)
Pseudotheopea azurea (Gressitt & Kimoto, 1963) (China)
Pseudotheopea boreri Lee & Bezděk, 2020 (India)
Pseudotheopea clypealis (Medvedev, 2015) (Vietnam)
Pseudotheopea costata (Allard, 1889) (Philippines)
Pseudotheopea gressitti Lee and Bezděk, 2020 (Philippines)
Pseudotheopea hsingtzungi Lee & Bezděk, 2020 (Laos)
Pseudotheopea kimotoi Lee & Bezděk, 2020 (Laos, Thailand, Vietnam)
Pseudotheopea leehsuehae Lee & Bezděk, 2020 (Laos)
Pseudotheopea smaragdina (Gressitt & Kimoto, 1963) (China)
Pseudotheopea sufangae Lee & Bezděk, 2020 (Taiwan)

Pseudotheopea similis group:

Pseudotheopea nigrita (Medvedev, 2007) (Thailand)
Pseudotheopea similis (Kimoto, 1989) (Laos, Vietnam)

Species unassigned to any species group:

Pseudotheopea aureoviridis (Chûjô, 1935) (Japan)
Pseudotheopea cheni (Lee & Bezděk, 2018) (Taiwan)
Pseudotheopea collaris (Kimoto, 1989) (Taiwan)
Pseudotheopea irregularis (Takizawa, 1978) (Taiwan)
Pseudotheopea kanmiyai (Kimoto, 1984) (Taiwan)

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References

  1. 1 2 "Pseudotheopea". GBIF. Retrieved 2021-12-02.
  2. 1 2 Lee, Chi-Feng; Bezděk, Jan (2020). "Revision of the Theopea genus group (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Galerucinae), part III: Descriptions of two new genera and nine new species". ZooKeys (912): 65–124. Bibcode:2020ZooK..912...65L. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.912.47719 . PMC   7040049 . PMID   32123500.