Theopea

Theopea
Theopea bicolor (first row), Theopea bicolorides (second row), and Theopea mouhoti (third row)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Infraorder:	Cucujiformia
Family:	Chrysomelidae
Subfamily:	Galerucinae
Tribe:	Luperini
Subtribe:	Luperina
Genus:	Theopea Baly, 1864
Type species
Crioceris impressa Fabricius, 1801

Theopea is a genus of skeletonizing leaf beetles in the family Chrysomelidae. There are more than 25 described species in Theopea. They are found in Indomalaya and the Palearctic. ^{[1] [2]} It is closely related to the genera Pseudotheopea and Borneotheopea .

Species

These 28 species belong to the genus Theopea, divided into three species groups (with nine others considered as species incertae sedis ): ^{[3] [4] [5]}

Theopea impressa group:

• Theopea chungi Lee & Bezdĕk, 2019
• Theopea impressa (Fabricius, 1801)
• Theopea longicollis (Jacoby, 1896)
• Theopea louwerensi Jolivet, 1951
• Theopea lunduensis Mohamedsaid, 1998

Theopea flavipalpis group:

• Theopea flavipalpis Laboissiere, 1940
• Theopea guoi Lee & Bezdĕk, 2019
• Theopea lui Lee & Bezdĕk, 2019
• Theopea sabahensis Lee & Bezdĕk, 2019

Theopea pulchella group:

• Theopea bicolor Kimoto, 1989
• Theopea bicoloroides Lee & Bezděk, 2020
• Theopea elegantula Baly, 1864
• Theopea fairmairei Duvivier, 1885
• Theopea houjayi Lee & Bezdĕk, 2019
• Theopea kedenburgi Weise, 1922
• Theopea mouhoti Baly, 1864
• Theopea pulchella Baly, 1864
• Theopea tsoui Lee & Bezdĕk, 2019
• Theopea yuae Lee & Bezdĕk, 2019

Species incertae sedis :

• Theopea clypeata Jacoby, 1896
• Theopea dohrni (Jacoby, 1889)
• Theopea incostata (Allard, 1889)
• Theopea intermedia (Jacoby, 1889)
• Theopea modiglianii Jacoby, 1896
• Theopea obliterata Jacoby, 1884
• Theopea variabilis (Jacoby, 1887)
• Theopea viridipennis (Jacoby, 1899)
• Theopea weberi (Weise, 1913)

References

1. "Theopea". GBIF. Retrieved 2021-12-02.
2. 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". ZooKeys (720): 91–102. Bibcode:2017ZooK..720...91N. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.720.13517 . PMC   5740445 . PMID   29290727.
3. Lee, Chi-Feng; Bezděk, Jan (2018). "Revision of the genus Theopea Baly (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae) of East Asia: species lacking modified clypeus in males and the T. sauteri species group". Zootaxa. 4508 (3): 334–376. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4508.3.2. PMID   30485982. S2CID   54157332.
4. Lee, Chi-Feng; Bezděk, Jan (2019). "Revision of the genus Theopea Baly (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae) in Sundaland and the Philippines: Redefinition of the genus". Zootaxa. 4683 (4): 451–507. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4683.4.1. PMID   31715907. S2CID   207937416.
5. 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.