Spintherophyta

Spintherophyta is a genus of leaf beetles in the subfamily Eumolpinae. Most species in the genus are found in Central and South America, but there are also a few North American species.[3]

Spintherophyta
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Family:	Chrysomelidae
Subfamily:	Eumolpinae
Tribe:	Eumolpini
Genus:	Spintherophyta Dejean, 1836
Type species
Colaspis semiaurata Klug, 1829
Synonyms
Chalcoparia Crotch, 1873 (nec Cabanis, 1850)[1] Chrysodina Baly, 1864[2]

Species

These species belong to the genus Spintherophyta:[4][5][6][7][8][9][10]

• Spintherophyta antenata (Lefèvre, 1887)
• Spintherophyta arizonensis Schultz, 1976 ^{i c g b} [3]
• Spintherophyta atroviolacea (Jacoby, 1890)[11]
• Spintherophyta aurichalcea (Germar, 1824)
• Spintherophyta callida (Bechyné, 1950)[12]
• Spintherophyta championi (Jacoby, 1881)[13]
• Spintherophyta collaris (Lefèvre, 1885)[14]
• Spintherophyta corrusca (Lefèvre, 1877)[15]
• Spintherophyta cribricollis (Lefèvre, 1889)
• Spintherophyta cyanipennis (Jacoby, 1890)[11]
• Spintherophyta diversicornis (Jacoby, 1900)
• Spintherophyta erythropoda (Bechyné, 1953)[10]
• Spintherophyta exigua Schultz, 1976 ^{i c g} [3]
• Spintherophyta festiva (Lefèvre, 1877)[15]
• Spintherophyta flavipes (Jacoby, 1881)[13]
• Spintherophyta frontalis Lefèvre, 1877[15]
• Spintherophyta fruhstorferi (Bechyné, 1955)[16]
• Spintherophyta fulvicornis (Jacoby, 1890)[11]
• Spintherophyta fuscitarsis (Lefèvre, 1877)[15]
• Spintherophyta globosa (Olivier, 1808) ^{i c g b} [3]
• Spintherophyta granulata (Jacoby, 1890)[11]
• Spintherophyta hoegei (Jacoby, 1881)[13]
• Spintherophyta igneicollis (Baly, 1864)[2]
• Spintherophyta ignita (Lefèvre, 1877)[15]
• Spintherophyta jucunda (Lefèvre, 1885)[14]
• Spintherophyta kirschi (Harold, 1874)
• Spintherophyta laevicollis (Lefèvre, 1885)[14]
• Spintherophyta laevigata (Lefèvre, 1878)
• Spintherophyta lectiuncula (Bechyné, 1951)[17]
  • Spintherophyta lectiuncula lectiuncula (Bechyné, 1951)
  • Spintherophyta lectiuncula polychromella Bechyné, 1958[18]
• Spintherophyta limitropha (Bechyné, 1950)[19]
• Spintherophyta lunai (Bechyné, 1951)[17]
• Spintherophyta malaisei (Bechyné, 1949)[20]
• Spintherophyta marginicollis (Jacoby, 1881)[13]
• Spintherophyta melania (Bechyné, 1955)[16]
• Spintherophyta nana (Jacoby, 1890)[11]
• Spintherophyta olaena (Bechyné, 1951)[17]
• Spintherophyta opacicollis (Lefèvre, 1885)[14]
• Spintherophyta opulenta (Lefèvre, 1877)[15]
• Spintherophyta ornata (Jacoby, 1881)[13]
• Spintherophyta ornaticollis (Jacoby, 1881)[13]
• Spintherophyta paraguayensis (Jacoby, 1898)
• Spintherophyta parvula (Lefèvre, 1885)[14]
  • Spintherophyta parvula crassa (Bechyné, 1955)[16]
  • Spintherophyta parvula parvula (Lefèvre, 1885)
• Spintherophyta podtianguini (Bechyné, 1951)[17]
• Spintherophyta praestans (Bechyné, 1950)[19]
• Spintherophyta pubescens (Jacoby, 1881)[13]
• Spintherophyta pucaya (Bechyné, 1955)[16]
• Spintherophyta punctum Gilbert & Clark, 2020[21]
• Spintherophyta purpurea (Harold, 1874)
• Spintherophyta purpureicollis (Jacoby, 1881)[13]
• Spintherophyta pusilla (Jacoby, 1890)[11]
• Spintherophyta querula (Bechyné, 1950)[12]
• Spintherophyta reticulata (Lefèvre, 1885)[14]
• Spintherophyta semiaurata (Klug, 1829)
• Spintherophyta servula (Lefèvre, 1887)
• Spintherophyta simplocarina (Bechyné, 1954)[22]
• Spintherophyta subsericea (Bechyné, 1955)[16]
• Spintherophyta sulcifrons (Harold, 1874)
• Spintherophyta surrabaya (Bechyné, 1955)[16]
• Spintherophyta tarsalis (Lefèvre, 1885)[14]
• Spintherophyta tibialis (Lefèvre, 1889)
• Spintherophyta trinidadensis (Bechyné, 1951)[17]
• Spintherophyta versicolor (Lefèvre, 1876)
• Spintherophyta vicina (Jacoby, 1890)[11]
• Spintherophyta violaceipennis (Horn, 1892) ^{i c g b} [3]
• Spintherophyta viridiceps (Bechyné, 1950)[23]
• Spintherophyta viridis (Lefèvre, 1876)

Data sources: i = ITIS,[4] c = Catalogue of Life,[5] g = GBIF,[6] b = Bugguide.net[7]

Synonyms:

• Spintherophyta alutacea (Jacoby, 1898): synonym of Spintherophyta opacicollis (Lefèvre, 1885)[16]
• Spintherophyta cupriceps (Lefèvre, 1877):[15] moved to Brachypnoea[9]
• Spintherophyta fulgurans (Harold, 1874): synonym of Spintherophyta igneicollis (Baly, 1864)[24]
• Spintherophyta incerta (Lefèvre, 1876): synonym of Spintherophyta igneicollis (Baly, 1864)[24]
• Spintherophyta laticollis (Jacoby, 1900): synonym of Spintherophyta igneicollis (Baly, 1864)[16]
• Spintherophyta maronica (Bechyné, 1950):[12] synonym of Spintherophyta igneicollis (Baly, 1864)[24]
• Spintherophyta nigrita (Baly, 1878): moved to Nycterodina[16]
• Spintherophyta peruana (Jacoby, 1898): synonym of Spintherophyta igneicollis (Baly, 1864)[16]
• Spintherophyta pilosa (Lefèvre, 1877): moved to Trichospinthera[9]
• Spintherophyta punctatostriata (Lefèvre, 1875): moved to Nycterodina[16]
• Spintherophyta subcostata (Jacoby, 1900): moved to Nycterodina[25]

References

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2. Baly, J. S. (1864). "Descriptions of New Genera and Species of Eumolpidae". The Journal of Entomology. 2: 219–223.
3. Schultz, William T. (1976). "Review of the Genus Spintherophyta (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) in North America North of Mexico". Annals of the Entomological Society of America. 69 (5): 877–881. doi:10.1093/aesa/69.5.877.
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8. Chaboo, Caroline S.; Flowers, R. Wills (2015). "Beetles (Coleoptera) of Peru: A Survey of the Families. Chrysomelidae: Eumolpinae Hope, 1840". Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society. 88 (3): 375–379. doi:10.2317/kent-88-03-375-379.1.
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11. Jacoby, M. (1890). "Eumolpidae". Insecta. Coleoptera, Supplement to Phytophaga. Biologia Centrali-Americana. 6. pp. 183–241.
12. Bechyné, J. (1950). "Eumolpides Américains nouveaux ou peu connus" (PDF). Entomologischen Arbeiten aus dem Museum G. Frey. 1: 205–238.
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14. Lefèvre, É. (1885). "Eumolpidarum hucusque cognitarum catalogus, sectionum conspectu systematico, generum sicut et specierum nonnullarum novarum descriptionibus adjunctis". Mémoires de la Société Royale des Sciences de Liège. 2. 11 (16): 1–172.
15. Lefèvre, E. (1877). "Descriptions de coléoptères nouveaux ou peu connus de la famille des Eumolpides (1re partie)". Annales de la Société Entomologique de France. 5. 7: 115–166.
16. Bechyné, J. (1955). "Reise des Herrn G. Frey in Sudamerika: Eumolpidae" (PDF). Entomologischen Arbeiten aus dem Museum G. Frey. 6: 569–657.
17. Bechyné, J. (1951). "Liste provisoire des Eumolpides de Bolivie et observations diverses sur les espèces de l'Amérique du Sud (Col. Phytophaga)". Entomologische Arbeiten aus dem Museum G. Frey Tutzing Bei München. 2: 227–352.
18. Bechyné, J. (1958). "Notizen zu den neotropischen Chrysomeloidea (Col. Phytophaga)". Entomologische Arbeiten aus dem Museum G. Frey Tutzing Bei München. 9: 478–706.
19. Bechyné, J. (1950). "Les générotypes des Eumolpides de l'Amérique du Sud et du Centre avec les diagnoses des formes nouvelles (Col. Phytoph. Chrysomeloidea)". Mitteilungen der Münchner Entomologischen Gesellschaft. 40: 264–292.
20. Bechyné, J. (1949). "Liste provisoire des Eumolpides de la Republique Argentine et observations diverses sur les Eumolpides de l'Amerique du Sud (Col., Chrysomeloidea)" (PDF). Acta Zoologica Lilloana. 8: 457–535.
21. Gilbert, A.J.; Clark, S.M. (2020). "A New Species of Spintherophyta Dejean, 1836 (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Eumolpinae) from the California Channel Islands, USA". The Coleopterists Bulletin. 74 (3): 555–562. doi:10.1649/0010-065X-74.3.555.
22. Bechyné, J. (1954). "La liste des Eumolpides de Rio Grande do Sul (Brésil) et observations diverses sur les espéces néotropicales" (PDF). Arquivos do Museu Paranaense. 10: 141–226. (note: pages 196–199 are missing in the PDF)
23. Bechyné, J. (1950). "Notes sur les eumolpides américains" (PDF). Mitteilungen der Münchner Entomologischen Gesellschaft. 40: 245–263.
24. Bechyné, J.; Špringlová de Bechyné, B. (1967). "Notes sur les Phytophaga neotropicaux (Coleoptera)" (PDF). Revista de la Facultad de Agronomía (Maracay). 4: 5–47.
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Further reading

• Riley, Edward G.; Clark, Shawn M.; Seeno, Terry N. (2003). Catalog of the leaf beetles of America north of Mexico (Coleoptera: Megalopodidae, Orsodacnidae and Chrysomelidae, excluding Bruchinae). Special Publication No. 1. The Coleopterists' Society. ISBN 978-0-9726087-1-8.
• 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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