Rhyparidella

Rhyparidella
Rhyparidiella buxtoni , syntype
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Infraorder:	Cucujiformia
Family:	Chrysomelidae
Subfamily:	Eumolpinae
Tribe:	Typophorini
Genus:	Rhyparidella Gressitt, 1969 [1]
Type species
Nodostoma sobrina Bryant, 1950

Rhyparidella is a genus of leaf beetles in the subfamily Eumolpinae. It is distributed in New Guinea, New Britain, Vanuatu and the Solomon Islands. ^{[1] [2]} It resembles the genus Rhyparida , but has smaller eyes and lacks a "Y"-shaped suture on the frontoclypeus (a combined frons and clypeus, making up part of the face), generally having a small tooth on the underside of each femur on the legs, and being uniformly small-sized. ^{[1] [2]}

Species

• Rhyparidella arachi (Gressitt, 1964) – Papua New Guinea (East Sepik)
• Rhyparidella aviceps Gressitt, 1969 ^[1] – Western New Guinea: West Papua (Fakfak, Manokwari)
• Rhyparidella bicolor Gressitt, 1969 ^[1] – Western New Guinea: Central Papua (Dogiyai, Paniai)
• Rhyparidella buxtoni (Bryant, 1936) ^[3] – Vanuatu
• Rhyparidella cacaona (Gressitt, 1966) – New Britain (Gazelle Peninsula, Willaumez Peninsula)
• Rhyparidella casuarinae (Gressitt, 1964) – Papua New Guinea (Eastern Highlands, Western Highlands, Chimbu)
• Rhyparidella cobaltina Gressitt, 1969 ^[1] – Papua New Guinea (Central)
• Rhyparidella corpulenta Gressitt, 1969 ^[1] – Woodlark
• Rhyparidella fakfaka Gressitt, 1969 ^[1] – Western New Guinea: West Papua (Fakfak)
• Rhyparidella fordi Gressitt, 1969 ^[1] – Papua New Guinea (Morobe, Southern Highlands, Eastern Highlands, Jiwaka)
• Rhyparidella fulva Medvedev, 2009 ^[4] – Western New Guinea: West Papua (Arfak Mountains)
• Rhyparidella hibisci (Gressitt, 1964) – Papua New Guinea (Gulf)
• Rhyparidella nigripennis Medvedev, 2009 ^[4] – Western New Guinea: Highland Papua (Jayawijaya)
• Rhyparidella ovipennis Medvedev, 2009 ^[4] – Western New Guinea: Highland Papua (Jayawijaya)
• Rhyparidella quadripustulata (Jacoby, 1884) ^[5] – Biak, Yapen
• Rhyparidella riedeli Medvedev, 2009 ^[4] – Western New Guinea: West Papua (Arfak Mountains)
• Rhyparidella rufocapitis Medvedev, 2009 ^[4] – Western New Guinea: West Papua (Arfak Mountains)
• Rhyparidella rufometallica Gressitt, 1969 ^[1] – Papua New Guinea (Enga, Sandaun, Madang)
• Rhyparidella sewana Gressitt, 1969 ^[1] – Normanby Island
• Rhyparidella sobrina (Bryant, 1950) ^[6] – Western New Guinea: Papua
• Rhyparidella suturalis Medvedev, 2009 ^[4] – Western New Guinea: Highland Papua (Jayawijaya)
• Rhyparidella wauensis Gressitt, 1969 ^[1] – Papua New Guinea (Morobe)
• Rhyparidella weisei Medvedev, 2009 ^[4] – Western New Guinea

References

1. Gressitt, J. L. (1969). "Chrysomelid beetles from the Papuan subregion, 6 (Eumolpinae, 4)" (PDF). Pacific Insects . 11 (1): 1–31.
2. Gómez-Zurita, J. (2024). "Additions and taxonomic remarks on the Eumolpinae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) from Vanuatu and the Solomon Islands" (PDF). Journal of Tropical Coleopterology. 5 (1): 1–27. Retrieved 2 January 2026.
3. Bryant, G. E. (1936). "Insects of the New Hebrides: Chrysomelidæ". Annals and Magazine of Natural History . 10. 17 (98): 242–256. doi:10.1080/00222933608655116.
4. 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.
5. Jacoby, M. (1884). "Description of new genera and species of Phytophagous Coleoptera from the Indo-Malayan and Austro-Malayan sub-regions, contained in the Genoa Civic Museum. First Part". Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova. 20: 188–233.
6. 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.