Taumacera

Taumacera
Taumacera facialis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Infraorder:	Cucujiformia
Family:	Chrysomelidae
Subfamily:	Galerucinae
Tribe:	Luperini
Genus:	Taumacera Thunberg, 1814
Type species
Taumacera deusta Thunberg, 1814
Synonyms [1]
Xenarthra Baly, 1861 Doridea Baly, 1864 Platyxantha Baly, 1864 ThaumaceraGemminger & Harold, 1876 (unjustified emendation) Acroxena Baly, 1879 Neocharis Jacoby, 1881 (nec Sharp, 1877) Metellus Jacoby, 1886 Nacrea Baly, 1886 Neochrolea Jacoby, 1887 ParaenideaLaboissière, 1933 PlatyxanthoidesLaboissière, 1933 KinabaluaMohamedsaid, 1997

Taumacera is a genus of leaf beetles in the subfamily Galerucinae. The genus was described by Carl Peter Thunberg in 1814. ^[2] It contains about 70 species distributed in the Oriental realm. About 20 African species are also classified in Taumacera, but they may actually belong in a different genus. ^[1]

Species

Species included in the genus (not including those from Africa), as of 2019: ^[1]

• Taumacera antennata species-group:
  • Taumacera antennata (Mohamedsaid, 1997)
  • Taumacera musaamani (Mohamedsaid, 2010)
• Taumacera cervicornis species-group:
  • Taumacera cervicornis (Baly, 1861)
  • Taumacera lewisi (Jacoby, 1887)
  • Taumacera mirabilis (Jacoby, 1887)
  • Taumacera unicolor (Jacoby, 1887)
• Taumacera deusta species-group:
  • Taumacera centromaculata Medvedev, 2008
  • Taumacera constricta Mohamedsaid, 2002
  • Taumacera costatipennis (Jacoby, 1896)
  • Taumacera dekatevi Reid, 2001
  • Taumacera deusta Thunberg, 1814
  • Taumacera duri Mohamedsaid, 2001
  • Taumacera evi Reid, 1999
  • Taumacera fulvicollis (Jacoby, 1881)
  • Taumacera fulvovirens (Laboissière, 1929)
  • Taumacera khalednordini Mohamedsaid, 2010
  • Taumacera laevipennis (Jacoby, 1886)
  • Taumacera maculata (Baly, 1886)
  • Taumacera midtibialis Mohamedsaid, 1998
  • Taumacera mohamedsaidi Reid, 1999
  • Taumacera seminigra Reid, 1999
  • Taumacera subapicalis Mohamedsaid, 1993
  • Taumacera sucki (Weise, 1922)
  • Taumacera tibialis Mohamedsaid, 1994
  • Taumacera uniformis (Jacoby, 1891)
  • Taumacera warisan Mohamedsaid, 1998
• Taumacera insignis species-group:
  • Taumacera insignis (Baly, 1864)
  • Taumacera yamamotoi (Mohamedsaid, 1998)
• Taumacera nasuta species-group:
  • Taumacera clypeata (Baly, 1888)
  • Taumacera facialis (Baly, 1886)
  • Taumacera frontalis Mohamedsaid, 2001
  • Taumacera fulva (Kimoto, 1989)
  • Taumacera indicola Bezděk, 2019
  • Taumacera kimotoi Bezděk, 2019
  • Taumacera martensi (Medvedev, 1990)
  • Taumacera medvedevi Bezděk, 2019
  • Taumacera nasuta (Baly, 1879)
  • Taumacera paradoxa (Laboissière, 1936)
  • Taumacera samoderzhenkovi (Medvedev, 1992)
• Taumacera nigricornis species-group:
  • Taumacera nigricornis (Baly, 1864)
  • Taumacera rufomarginata (Jacoby, 1895)
  • Taumacera ventralis (Baly, 1864)
• Taumacera viridis species-group:
  • Taumacera aureipennis (Laboissière, 1933)
  • Taumacera bella (Weise, 1922)
  • Taumacera indica (Jacoby, 1889)
  • Taumacera insularis (Gressitt & Kimoto, 1965)
  • Taumacera magenta (Gressitt & Kimoto, 1965)
  • Taumacera occipitalis (Laboissière, 1933)
  • Taumacera sumatrensis (Jacoby, 1884)
  • Taumacera variceps (Laboissière, 1933)
  • Taumacera viridis (Hope, 1831)
• Unassigned species:
  • Taumacera antennalis Medvedev & Romantsov, 2013
  • Taumacera apicalis (Baly 1864)
  • Taumacera bifasciata (Jacoby, 1899)
  • Taumacera coxalis (Jacoby, 1899)
  • Taumacera indochinensis (Medvedev, 2004)
  • Taumacera jacobyi (Weise, 1922)
  • Taumacera javanensis (Jacoby, 1895)
  • Taumacera kinabaluensis (Mohamedsaid, 1995)
  • Taumacera monstrosa (Jacoby, 1899)
  • Taumacera multicostata (Jacoby, 1896)
  • Taumacera nagaii (Mohamedsaid, 1998)
  • Taumacera nigripennis (Jacoby, 1884)
  • Taumacera philippina (Weise, 1913)
  • Taumacera rubida (Allard, 1889)
  • Taumacera smaragdina (Duvivier, 1884)
  • Taumacera submetallica (Jacoby, 1896)
  • Taumacera sumatrana (Jacoby, 1899)
  • Taumacera suturalis (Duvivier, 1885)
  • Taumacera variabilis (Jacoby, 1891)

References

1. Bezděk, J. (2019). "Taumacera revisited, with new synonyms, new combinations and a revised catalogue of the species (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae)" (PDF). Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae . 59 (1): 23–52. doi: 10.2478/aemnp-2019-0003 .
2. Thunberg, C. P. (1814). "Beskrifning på tvänne nye Insect-Slågten, Gnatocerus och Taumacera från Goda-Hopps Udden". Kungl. Svenska vetenskapsakademiens handlingar (in Swedish). 1814.