Taxonomic revision of the genus Angulaphthona (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae: Alticini)

Title:

Taxonomic revision of the genus Angulaphthona (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae: Alticini)

Creator:

Biondi, Maurizio and D'Alessandro, Paola

Identifier:

https://cdk.lib.cas.cz/client/handle/uuid:ff4221d7-b02a-4f96-bcb7-234520151668
uuid:ff4221d7-b02a-4f96-bcb7-234520151668
doi:10.14411/eje.2018.005

Subject:

Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Galerucinae, Alticini, Angulaphthona, Afrotropical region, Arabian Peninsula, Sri Lanka, new combination, taxonomy, revision, and new species

Type:

model:article and TEXT

Format:

počítač and online zdroj

Description:

A revision of the genus Angulaphthona Bechyné, 1960 is provided, with a description of Angulaphthona confusa sp. n. from the Democratic Republic of Congo, and A. rossii sp. n. from Sierra Leone. The following synonymies are proposed: Angulaphthona latipennis (Pic, 1921) = A. latipennis zambeziensis (Bechyné, 1959) syn. n. and Angulaphthona pelengensis Bechyné, 1960 = A. exalta Bechyné, 1960 syn. n. The precedence of the name pelengensis is discussed. Angulaphthona violaceomicans (Chen, 1936) comb. n. (transferred from Aphthona) from Sri Lanka is established, and some hypotheses to explain the presence of the genus outside Africa are put forward. A key to the seven known species is supplied, with microphotographs of diagnostic characters, including male and female genitalia.

Language:

English

Rights:

http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
policy:public

Source:

European Journal of Entomology | 2018 Volume:115 | Number:1

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