Rhodopaea

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Rhodopaea
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Infraorder: Cucujiformia
Family: Chrysomelidae
Subfamily: Eumolpinae
Tribe: Bromiini
Genus: Rhodopaea
Gruev & Tomov, 1968 [1]
Type species
Rhodopaea angelovi
Gruev & Tomov, 1968 [1]
Synonyms

GrueviaWarchałowski, 1974 [2]

Rhodopaea (or Gruevia) is a genus of leaf beetles in the subfamily Eumolpinae. [3] It originally contained only one species, Rhodopaea angelovi, which is paleoendemic to the western Rhodopes of Bulgaria. [4] In 2019, a second species, Rhodopaea heinzi, was described from northwestern Anatolia in Turkey. [5]

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Taxonomy

The genus Rhodopaea and the type species, R. angelovi, were originally described by Bulgarian entomologists Blagoy Gruev and Vassil Tomov in 1968. In 1974, Warchałowski suggested the generic name Gruevia, believing the name Rhodopaea to be preoccupied by a butterfly genus of the same name described by Achille Guenée in 1845. The name of the type species would therefore be Gruevia angelovi. However, it turned out the genus described by Guenée was actually called Rhodophaea , which was misspelled as Rhodopaea by Bytinski-Salz in 1938. Therefore, Rhodopaea angelovi remains the valid name for the type species. [6]

Species

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Gruev, B.; Tomov, V. (1968). "Novii rod i vid zhuka listoeda Rhodopaea angelovi, gen. et sp. n. (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae) iz Bolgarii". Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie. 47: 553–555.
  2. Warchałowski, A. (1974). "Übersicht der Blattkäfer Bulgariens (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae)". Polskie Pismo Entomologiczne. 44: 473–542.
  3. Moseyko, A. G.; Sprecher-Uebersax, E. (2010). "Eumolpinae". In Löbl, I.; Smetana, A. (eds.). Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera. Volume 6. Chrysomeloidea. Stenstrup, Denmark: Apollo Books. pp. 619–643. ISBN   978-87-88757-84-2.
  4. Gruev, B.; Tomov, V. (2007). Zoocartographia Bulcanica. Volume 3. Distributional Atlas & Catalogue of the Leaf Beetles of Bulgaria: (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae). Sofia–Moscow: Pensoft Publishers. ISBN   978-95-46422-71-2.
  5. 1 2 Kippenberg, Horst (2019). "Rhodopaea heinzi sp.n. aus Anatolien (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Eumolpinae)" (PDF). Koleopterologische Rundschau. 89: 321–324.
  6. Бечев, Димитър (2019-01-06). "Основни принципи на биологическата систематика. Електронно издание, версия 1.3" [Basic principles of biological systematics. Electronic edition, version 1.3](PDF) (in Bulgarian). p. 13. Retrieved 8 September 2019.