Tricholapita

Tricholapita
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Family:	Chrysomelidae
Subfamily:	Eumolpinae
Tribe:	Eumolpini
Genus:	Tricholapita; Gómez-Zurita & Cardoso, 2020
Type species
	; Samuelson, 2010
Synonyms
	Lapita Gómez-Zurita & Cardoso, 2014 (nec Bickel, 2002)

Tricholapita is a genus of leaf beetles in the subfamily Eumolpinae. The genus is endemic to New Caledonia.

Taxonomy[]

The genus was first proposed by the Spanish entomologists Jésus Gómez-Zurita and Anabela Cardoso as a subgenus of Taophila, after a morphological and molecular study of the latter in 2014. The subgenus was given the name Lapita, and included three species.^[2] A 2019 phylogenetic study of the subgenus added a further eight species to it.^[3] The subgenus Lapita was discovered to be a junior homonym of the fly genus Lapita Bickel, 2002, so it was renamed to Tricholapita in 2020. Given the many morphological differences to Taophila s. str., the group was also elevated in rank to genus. Additionally, phylogenetic evidence suggested another species, which was proposed in the same work.^[1]

Species[]

There are 12 species currently included in the genus:^[2]^[3]^[1]

(Gómez-Zurita, 2014)
(Platania & Gómez-Zurita, 2019)
(Gómez-Zurita, 2014)
(Platania & Gómez-Zurita, 2019)
(Platania & Gómez-Zurita, 2019)
(Samuelson, 2010)^[4]
(Platania & Gómez-Zurita, 2019)
(Platania & Gómez-Zurita, 2019)
(Platania & Gómez-Zurita, 2019)
Gómez-Zurita, Platania & Cardoso, 2020
(Platania & Gómez-Zurita, 2019)
(Platania & Gómez-Zurita, 2019)

References[]

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Gómez-Zurita, J.; Platania, L.; Cardoso, A. (2020). "A new species of the genus Tricholapita nom. nov. and stat. nov. (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae, Eumolpinae) from New Caledonia". Zootaxa. 4858 (1): 85–94. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4858.1.5.
^ ^a ^b ^c Gómez-Zurita, J.; Cardoso, A. (2014) [Published online 7 October 2013]. "Systematics of the New Caledonian endemic genus Taophila Heller (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae, Eumolpinae) combining morphological, molecular and ecological data, with description of two new species". Systematic Entomology. 39 (1): 111–126. doi:10.1111/syen.12038.
^ ^a ^b Platania, L.; Cardoso, A.; Gómez-Zurita, J. (2020) [Published online 8 November 2019]. "Diversity and evolution of New Caledonian endemic Taophila subgenus Lapita (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Eumolpinae)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 189 (4): 1123–1154. doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlz119.
^ Samuelson, G. A. (2010). "Review of Taophila, a genus endemic to New Caledonia (Coleoptera : Chrysomelidae : Eumolpinae)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 2621: 45–62. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.2621.1.3.

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[GomezZuritaPlataniaCardoso2020-1] Gómez-Zurita, J.; Platania, L.; Cardoso, A. (2020). "A new species of the genus Tricholapita nom. nov. and stat. nov. (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae, Eumolpinae) from New Caledonia". Zootaxa. 4858 (1): 85–94. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4858.1.5.

[Gómez-Zurita2014-2] Gómez-Zurita, J.; Cardoso, A. (2014) [Published online 7 October 2013]. "Systematics of the New Caledonian endemic genus Taophila Heller (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae, Eumolpinae) combining morphological, molecular and ecological data, with description of two new species". Systematic Entomology. 39 (1): 111–126. doi:10.1111/syen.12038.

[PlataniaCardosoGomezZurita2019-3] Platania, L.; Cardoso, A.; Gómez-Zurita, J. (2020) [Published online 8 November 2019]. "Diversity and evolution of New Caledonian endemic Taophila subgenus Lapita (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Eumolpinae)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 189 (4): 1123–1154. doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlz119.

[Samuelson2010-4] Samuelson, G. A. (2010). "Review of Taophila, a genus endemic to New Caledonia (Coleoptera : Chrysomelidae : Eumolpinae)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 2621: 45–62. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.2621.1.3.

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