Hermesia (beetle)

Hermesia is a genus of leaf beetles in the subfamily Eumolpinae. They are found in Central America and South America.

Hermesia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Chrysomelidae
Subfamily: Eumolpinae
Tribe: Eumolpini
Genus: Hermesia
Lefèvre, 1877[1]
Type species
Colaspis aurata
Olivier, 1808

The genus was previously considered a synonym of Hylax, but in 1995 it was restored as a separate genus.[2]

Species

As of 1995, Hermesia contains three species:[2]

  • Hermesia aurata (Olivier, 1808) (Synonym: Chalcophana nitidissimus Erichson, 1847)
  • Hermesia cyanea Bowditch, 1921
  • Hermesia inermis Bowditch, 1921 (Synonym: Rhabdopterus violaceus Jacoby, 1882)

References
  1. Lefèvre, E. (1877). "La description suivante d'un genre nouveau de coléoptères, appartenant à la famille des eumolpides". Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France: clxxviii–clxxix.
  2. Flowers, R. Wills (1995). "Hermesia Lefèvre, a resurrected genus of neotropical Eumolpinae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae)". Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington. 97 (1): 35–45.


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