Altica caerulea

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Chrysomeloidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Pancrustacea Cladus: Allotriocarida Subphylum: Hexapoda Classis: Insecta Cladus: Dicondylia Subclassis: Pterygota Infraclassis: Neoptera Cladus: Eumetabola Cladus: Holometabola Superordo: Coleopterida Ordo: Coleoptera Subordo: Polyphaga Infraordo: Cucujiformia Cladus: Phytophaga Superfamilia: Chrysomeloidea

Familia: Chrysomelidae
Subfamilia: Galerucinae
Tribus: Alticini
Subtribus: Alticina
Genus: Altica
Species: Altica caerulea

Name

Altica caerulea (Olivier, 1791)

Type locality: East Indies.

Lectotype: NMSE. ♂. Dufresne 1936-50 217/ Galeruca coerulea 14/ Haltica coerulea Oliv. ?cotype. [designated by Reid & Beatson, 2015: 530]

Synonymy

• Galeruca caerulea Olivier, 1791: 590 (original combination)
• Galleruca lausoniae Fabricius, 1798: BHL [syn. nov.: Bezděk & Biondi, 2018: 188]
  • Lectotype: ZMUK. ♂. [designated by Bezděk & Biondi, 2018: 188]
  • Type locality: “India orientalis”.
• Haltica elongata Jacoby, 1884: 28 [syn. nov. Reid & Beatson, 2015: 530]
  • Type locality: Sumatra.
  • Lectotype: MCZ. ♂. [designated by Reid & Beatson, 2015: 531]
• Graptodera coerulea [misspelling]: Allard, 1891: 230
• Haltica brevicosta Weise, 1922: 110; Kimoto, 1972: 47 (jun. syn. A. caerulea); Medvedev, 2009: 22 (valid species); Döberl, 2010: 493 (jun. syn. A. caerulea).
  • Type locality: Luzon, Java, Canton, Darjeeling.
• Haltica coerulea [misspelling]: Maulik, 1926: 423
• Altica coerulea [misspelling]: Gressitt & Kimoto, 1963: 890 (misidentification, as junior synonym of A. cyanea); Kimoto, 1966: 35 (valid species)
• Altica brevicostata [misspelling]: Kimoto, 1965: 490
• Altica coelurea [misspelling]: Kimoto, 1972: 47
• Altica elongata: Kimoto, 2001: 159

References

Primary references

• Bezděk, J. & Biondi, M. 2018. On the generic names proposed in Chrysomelidae (Coleoptera) by Gustaf Johan Billberg. Zootaxa 4422(2): 184–190. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4422.2.2 Reference page. 
• Fabricius, J.C. 1798. Entomologia systematica emendata et aucta. Supplementum. Proft et Storch, Hafniae, pp. 1–582. (BHL) + Index (BHL). Reference page. 
• Jacoby, M. 1884. Descriptions of new genera and species of phytophagous Coleoptera from Sumatra. Notes from the Leyden Museum 6: 9–70. BHL.
• Kimoto, S. 1972. A List of the Chrysomelid-beetles Collected by Prof. K.Yasumatsu in India and Pakistan in 1963 (Col.: Chrysomelidae). Entomological review of Japan 24(1–2): 43–48. Full issue (PDF).
• Kimoto, S. 2001. Check-list of Chrysomelidae of South East Asia, South of Thailand and West of Irian Jaya of Indonesia. IX. Alticinae. Bulletin of the Institute of Comparative Studies of International Cultures and Societies, Kurume University 28: 153–249. [not seen]
• Olivier, G.-A. 1791–1792. Encyclopédie Méthodique. Histoire Naturelle. Insectes. Tome sixième. Paris: Panckoucke, 704 pp. BHL. Google Books. Reference page. 
• Reid, C.A.M. & Beatson, M. 2015. Disentangling a taxonomic nightmare: a revision of the Australian, Indomalayan and Pacific species of Altica Geoffroy, 1762 (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae). Zootaxa 3918(4): 503–551. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3918.4.3 . Reference page. 
• Weise, J. 1922. Chrysomeliden der Indo-Malayischen Region. Tijdschrift voor Entomologie 65: 39–130. BHL. Reference page. 

Additional references

• Döberl, M. 2010. Subfamily Alticinae Newman, 1835. Pp. 491–563. In: Löbl, I. & Smetana, A. (eds.) Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera. Volume 6. Chrysomeloidea. Apollo Books, Stenstrup, Denmark. 924 pp. ISBN 978-87-88757-84-2. Google Books. Reference page. 
• Gressitt, J.L. & Kimoto, S. 1963. The Chrysomelidae (Coleopt.) of China and Korea, part 2. Pacific Insects Monograph 1B: 301–1026. PDF. Reference page. 
• Kimoto, S. 1965. A list of specimens of Chrysomelidae from Taiwan preserved in the Naturhistorisches Museum / Wien (Insecta: Coleoptera). Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien 68: 485–490. JSTOR . PDF.
• Kimoto, S. 1966. A list of the chrysomelid specimens of Taiwan preserved in the Zoological Museum, Berlin. Esakia 5: 21–38. hdl: 2324/2351 .
• Maulik, S. 1926. The Fauna of British India including Ceylon and Burma. Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae (Chrysomelinae and Halticinae). Taylor and Francis, London, 442 pp. BHL.
• Medvedev, L.N. 2009. Alticinae of Indochina. KMK Scientific Press, Moscow, 224 pp. ISBN 9785873176205 [not seen]