Lepina (beetle)

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Lepina
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Chrysomelidae
Subfamily: Eumolpinae
Tribe: Bromiini
Genus: Lepina
Baly, 1863[1]
Type species

Baly, 1863
Synonyms[2]

Demotinella Jacoby, 1908

Lepina is a genus of leaf beetles in the subfamily Eumolpinae.[3] It is widely distributed in Southeast Asia. It is very close to the genus .[2]

Etymology[]

The name of the genus is derived from the ancient Greek word λεπίς (lepis), meaning "scale".[4]

Description[]

The genus Lepina has the following characteristics: The body is oblong, subcylindrical, and covered with narrow curved scales. The head is small, deeply set in the thorax, perpendicular; the eyes are entire; the frontoclypeus (or epistome) has a convex triangle shape. The antennae are sub-filiform; the last five segments are almost globular, the 2nd segment is thickened and is distinctly larger than the 3rd segment. The prothorax is broader than long, subcylindrical; the prosternum is separated from the episternum by a sutural groove. The legs are moderately robust; the pro- and metafemora have a small ventral tooth; the basal segment of the tarsi is barely longer than the second; the claws are bifid.[1][5][6][2]

Lepina shares many characters with the genus , but differs from it by the sutural groove between the prosternum and episternum, the shape of the frontoclypeus (in Apolepis, it does not have a convex triangle shape), and the lateral edging of the pronotum (in Apolepis, it takes the form of a row of teeth, which are not present in Lepina).[1][2]

Species[]

The genus includes five species:[7][2]

References[]

  1. ^ a b c Baly, J. S. (1863). "An attempt at a classification of the Eumolpidae". The Journal of Entomology. 2: 143–163.
  2. ^ a b c d e Moseyko, A.G. (2020). "Notes on Asiatic Eumolpinae (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae)". Entomological Review (published 15 January 2021). 100 (6): 843–862. doi:10.1134/S0013873820060123.
  3. ^ Mohamedsaid, M. S. (2004). Catalogue of the Malaysian Chrysomelidae (Insecta: Coleoptera). Pensoft Series Faunistica. 36. Sofia: Pensoft Publishers. pp. 1–239. ISBN 9546422010. ISSN 1312-0174.
  4. ^ Gemminger, M.; Harold, E. von (1874). Catalogus Coleopterorum hucusque descriptorum synonymicus et systematicus. Tom. XI. Chrysomelidae (Pars I.). Monachii [= München]: G. Beck. p. 3393.
  5. ^ Baly, J. S. (1867). "Phytophaga Malayana; a revision of the phytophagous beetles of the Malay Archipelago, with descriptions of the new species collected by Mr. A. R. Wallace". Transactions of the Entomological Society of London. 3. 4: 1–300. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2311.1866.tb01857.x.
  6. ^ 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.
  7. ^ Clavareau, H. (1914). "Chrysomelidae: 11. Eumolpinae". In Junk, W.; Schenkling, S. (eds.). Coleopterorum Catalogus. 59. Berlin: W. Junk. p. 135.


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