Rhabdopterus weisei

Rhabdopterus weisei is a species of leaf beetle.[4][5][6][7] It is found in North America.[4] It was originally described under the name Colaspis subaenea by the American entomologist Charles Frederic August Schaeffer in 1919. However, this name was already used for a species described by Martin Jacoby in 1890, so Schaeffer renamed his species to Colaspis weisei the following year. It was later moved to the genus Rhabdopterus by Herbert Spencer Barber in 1943.[2]

Rhabdopterus weisei
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Chrysomelidae
Genus: Rhabdopterus
Species:
R. weisei
Binomial name
Rhabdopterus weisei
(Schaeffer, 1920)[1]
Synonyms[2]
  • Colaspis subaenea Schaeffer, 1919
    (nec Jacoby, 1890)    [3]
  • Colaspis weisei Schaeffer, 1920

The species was synonymised with Rhabdopterus praetextus by William T. Schultz in 1977,[8] but was restored as a valid species in 2001.[9]

References
  1. Schaeffer, C. (1920). "Change of names in Coleoptera". Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomological Society. New Series. 15: 117.
  2. Barber, H. S. (1943). "Notes on Rhabdopterus in the United States (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae)". Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomological Society. New Series. 38 (4): 111–120.
  3. Schaeffer, C. (1919). "Synonymical and other notes on some species of the family Chrysomelidae and descriptions of new species". Journal of the New York Entomological Society. 27 (4): 307–340. JSTOR 25003871.
  4. "Rhabdopterus weisei Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-04-25.
  5. "Rhabdopterus weisei species details". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2018-04-25.
  6. "Rhabdopterus weisei". GBIF. Retrieved 2018-04-25.
  7. "Rhabdopterus weisei Species Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-04-25.
  8. Schultz, W. T. (1977). "Review of the Genus Rhabdopterus (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) in America North of Mexico". Annals of the Entomological Society of America. 70 (6): 968–974. doi:10.1093/aesa/70.6.968.
  9. Riley, Edward G.; Clark, Shawn M.; Gilbert, Arthur J. (2001). "New records, nomenclatural changes, and taxonomic notes for select North American leaf beetles". Insecta Mundi. 15 (1): 1–17.

Further reading
  • Lobl, I.; Smetana, A., eds. (2013). Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera, Volume 6: Chrysomeloidea. Apollo Books. ISBN 978-90-04-26091-7.


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