Aulacothorax

Aulacothorax copalinus

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: Serraticollini
Genus: Aulacothorax
Species: A. arabicus – A. australis – A. bakeri – A. borneoensis – A. capensis – A. chibi – A. coomani – A. copalinus – A. exilis – A. kirejtshuki – A. konstantinovi – A. melinus – A. mindanaoensis – A. minutiusculus – A. okinawanus – A. orientalis – A. pahangi – A. parkeri – A. rangoonensis – A. rata – A. recticollis – A. sabahcola – A. schereri – A. syzygium – A. terminalia – A. tuberculatus – A. visayanensis
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Name

Aulacothorax Boheman, 1858: 35

Gender: masculine.

Type species: Aulacothorax exilis Boheman, 1858, by monotypy.

Synonyms

• Orthaltica Crotch, 1873: 69 [syn.: Bezděk & Konstantinov, 2017: 792]
  • Type species: Crioceris copalina Fabricius, 1801, by subsequent designation of Scherer, 1974.
• Leptotrix Horn, 1889: 249 [not Leptothrix Menge, 1868 (Arachnida)] [syn.: Scherer, 1974: 65 (with Orthaltica); Bezděk & Konstantinov, 2017: 792]
  • Type species: Haltica recticollis J.L. LeConte, 1861, by monotypy.
• Micrantipha Blackburn, 1896: 88 [syn.: Reid, 1990: 205 (with Orthaltica); Bezděk & Konstantinov, 2017: 792]
  • Type species: Micrantipha paradoxa Blackburn, 1896, by monotypy.
• Livolia Jacoby, 1903: 15 [syn.: Scherer, 1974: 66 (with Orthaltica); Bezděk & Konstantinov, 2017: 792]
  • Type species: Livolia sulcicollis Jacoby, 1903, by subsequent designation of Scherer, 1974.
• Leptotrichaltica Heikertinger, 1925: 68 [replacement name for Leptotrix Horn, 1889] [syn.: Scherer, 1974: 66 (with Orthaltica); Bezděk & Konstantinov, 2017: 792]
• Micrepitrix Laboissière, 1933: 205 [syn.: Scherer, 1971: 10 (with Livolia); Scherer, 1974: 66 (with Orthaltica); Bezděk & Konstantinov, 2017: 792]
  • Type species: Micrepitrix coomani Laboissière, 1933, by monotypy.
• Serraticollis B. White, 1942: 17 [syn.: Arnett, 1963: 938 (with Orthaltica); Bezděk & Konstantinov, 2017: 792]
  • Type species: Serraticollis rhois B. White, 1942 [= Orthaltica recticollis J.L. LeConte, 1861], by original designation.
• Epithrella Medvedev, 1994: 17 [syn.: Konstantinov & Prathapan, 2008: 406 (with Orthaltica); Bezděk & Konstantinov, 2017: 792]
  • Type species: Epithrella philippina Medvedev, 1993, by original designation.
• Livoliella Medvedev, 1997: 100 [syn.: Konstantinov & Prathapan, 2008: 406 (with Orthaltica); Bezděk & Konstantinov, 2017: 792]
  • Type species: Livoliella luzonica Medvedev, 1997, by original designation.

References

Primary references

• Bezděk, J. & Konstantinov, A.S. 2017. Forgotten Aulacothorax Boheman, 1858, a Senior Synonym of Orthaltica Crotch, 1873 (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae: Alticini). The Coleopterists Bulletin 71(4): 791–795. DOI: 10.1649/0010-065X-71.4.791 . ResearchGate . Reference page. 
• Blackburn, T. 1896. Further notes on Australian Coleoptera with descriptions of new genera and species. XIX. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 20: 35–109. BHL. Reference page. 
• Boheman, C.H., 1858. Coleoptera. Species novae discripsit, pp. 1–112. In: Kongliga Svenska Fregatten Eugenies Resa Omkring Jorden unter Bafäl af C.A. Virgin, Aren 1851-1853. Andra Delen, Zoologici 1, Insecta. Stockholm. BHL
• Crotch, G.R. 1873. Materials for the Study of the Phytophaga of the United States. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 25(1): 19–83. JSTOR . BHL. Reference page. 
• Jacoby, M. 1903. A further contribution to our knowledge of African phytophagous Coleoptera, Part II. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1903: 1–38. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2311.1903.tb01124.x . BHL.
• Konstantinov, A.S. 1995. New species of Clavicornaltica and Orthaltica from the Australian and Oriental Regions (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae, Alticinae). Zoosystematica Rossica 3(2): 283–288. Abstract.
• Konstantinov, A.S. & Prathapan, K.D. 2008. New generic synonyms in the Oriental flea beetles (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae). The Coleopterists Bulletin 62(3): 381-418. DOI: 10.1649/1089.1 . JSTOR . PDF. Reference page. 
• Laboissière, V. 1933. Descriptions de trois nouveaux Galerucini du Tonkin. Bulletin du Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (ser. 2) 5: 203–208. BHL.
• Medvedev, L.N. 1994. Alticinae of the Philippine Islands (Coleoptera Chrysomelidae). Part 2. Russian Entomological Journal 2(5–6): 11–32. [not seen]
• Medvedev, L.N. 1997. New and interesting Chrysomelidae (Coleoptera) from the Philippines collected by Dr. M. Satô. Japanese Journal of Systematic Entomology 3(1): 99–104. [not seen]
• Reid, C.A.M. 1990. Micrantipha Blackburn, a synonym of Orthaltica Crotch (Col., Chrysomelidae). Entomologist's Monthly Magazine 126: 205–206. [not seen]
• Scherer, G. 1971. Das Genus Livolia Jacoby und seine umstrittene Stellung im System. Eine taxonomische-zoogeographische-evolutionistische Studie (Coleoptera-Chrysomelidae-Alticinae). Entomologische Arbeiten aus dem Museum G. Frey 22: 1–37. BHL.
• Scherer, G. 1974. Review of North American species of Orthaltica with new generic synonymy (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Alticinae). The Coleopterists Bulletin 28(2): 65–72. JSTOR . BHL.
• White, B.E. 1942. A new genus and species of Coleoptera (Chrysomelidae) from the southwestern United States. Entomological News 53(1): 16–21. BHL.

Additional references

• Andrews, F.G. & Gilbert, A.J. 1993. Studies on the Chrysomelidae (Coleoptera) of the Baja California peninsula: a new species of Orthaltica (Alticinae), with notes on the genus in Baja California. The Pan-Pacific Entomologist 69(4): 277–280. BHL. Reference page. 
• Douglas, H.B., Konstantinov, A.S., Brunke, A.J., Moseyko, A.G., Chapados, J.T., Eyres, J., Richter, R., Savard, K., Sears, E., Prathapan, K.D., Ruan, Y. & Dettman, J.R. 2023. Phylogeny of the flea beetles (Galerucinae: Alticini) and the position of Aulacothorax elucidated through anchored phylogenomics (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Alticini). Systematic Entomology 48(3): 361–386. DOI: 10.1111/syen.12582 . Reference page.  [proposes classifying Aulacothorax in separate tribe Serraticollini]
• Prathapan, K.D., Konstantinov, A.S., Shameem, K.M. & Balan, A.P. 2013. First record of leaf-hole shelters used and modified by leaf beetles (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae), with descriptions of two new Orthaltica Crotch species from southern India. ZooKeys 336: 47–59. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.336.5435 . Reference page. 
• Riley, E.G., Clark, S.M. & Seeno, T.N. 2003. Catalog of the leaf beetles of America north of Mexico (Coleoptera: Megalopididae, Orsodacnidae and Chrysomelidae, excluding Bruchinae). Coleopterists Society, Special Publication No. 1. Sacramento, CA. 290 pp. ISBN 978-0-9726087-1-8. BHL. Internet Archive. Reference page. 
• Takizawa, H. 2017. Leaf beetles of Mt. Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae). Japanese Journal of Systematic Entomology 23(2): 195–233. Abstract (Facebook). Reference page.