Elizabeth Grobbelaar

Elizabeth Grobbelaar, South Africa entomologist

South African National Collection of Insects, Pretoria, South Africa
Biosystematics Division, ARC-Plant Protection Research Institute - Private Bag X134, Queenswood, Pretoria 0121, Republic of South Africa

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

(List may be incomplete)

(List may be incomplete)

Grobbelaar, E. 1993. A revision of the southern African species of Megalognatha Baly (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae). Entomology Memoir 86: 1–85. ResearchGate .

Grobbelaar, E. 1995. A revision of the southern African genus Pseudorupilia Jacoby (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae). African Entomology 3(2): 189–211. hdl: 10520/AJA10213589_90 . ResearchGate .

Grobbelaar, E. 2008. On the identity of Ootheca bennigseni Weise, O. mutabilis (Schönherr) and O. meridiana sp. n. (Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae), bean and cowpea pests in the Afrotropical Region. African Entomology 16(1): 7–22. hdl: 10520/EJC32763 . ResearchGate .

Chaboo, C.S., Grobbelaar, E. & Heron, H.D.C. 2010. An African leaf miner, Oncocephala promontorii Péringuey, 1898 (Chrysomelidae: Cassidinae: Oncocephalini): Biological notes and host records. The Coleopterists Bulletin 64(1): 21–29. DOI: 10.1649/0010-065X-64.1.21 . Reference page.

Zoia, S. & Grobbelaar, E. 2011. Additional data on Odontiomorpha Jacoby, 1900 with description of a new species (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae). Entomologische Zeitschrift 121(5): 221–224. PDF. Reference page.

D'Alessandro, P., Grobbelaar, E. & Biondi, M. 2012. Revision of the genus Stegnaspea Baly with descriptions of five new species from southern Africa (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae: Alticini). Insect Systematics & Evolution 43(1): 11–33. DOI: 10.1163/187631212X626032 . PDF. Reference page.

Bjørnstad, A., Grobbelaar, E. & Perissinotto, R. 2016. Review of Afraustraloderes rassei Bouyer, 2012: description of its female and a new species of Pixodarus Fairmaire, 1887 (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae, Prioninae). ZooKeys 558: 77–93. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.558.6112 . Reference page.
Sudre, J. & Grobelaar, E. & Minetti, R. 2016. Description d'un nouveau genre et d'une nouvelle espèce d'Afrique du Sud appartenant à la tribu des Parmenini. Cahiers Magellanes, ser. n.s., 24: 20–22. Reference page.

Biondi, M., Frasca, R., Grobbelaar, E. & D'Alessandro, P. 2017. Supraspecific taxonomy of the flea beetle genus Blepharida Chevrolat, 1836 (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) in the Afrotropical Region and description of Afroblepharida subgen. nov. Insect Systematics & Evolution 48(2): 97–155. DOI: 10.1163/1876312X-48022152 . ResearchGate . Reference page.

D'Alessandro, P., Frasca, R., Grobbelaar, E., Iannella, M. & Biondi, M. 2018. Systematics and biogeography of the Afrotropical flea beetle subgenus Blepharidina (Afroblepharida) Biondi and D’Alessandro, with description of seven new species (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Galerucinae, Alticini). Insect Systematics & Evolution 49(4): 443–480. DOI: 10.1163/1876312X-00002182 . Reference page.

D'Alessandro, P., Iannella, M., Grobbelaar, E. & Biondi, M. 2020. Revision of the Calotheca nigrotessellata species group from southern Africa, with description of two new species (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae, Galerucinae, Alticini). Fragmenta Entomologica 52(2): 169–182. DOI: 10.13133/2284-4880/457 . Reference page.

D'Alessandro, P., Iannella, M., Grobbelaar, E. & Biondi, M. 2021. Taxonomic revision of the Calotheca parvula species group from southern Africa, with descriptions of three new species (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae). African Invertebrates 62(1): 315–337. DOI: 10.3897/AfrInvertebr.62.62426 . Reference page.

D'Alessandro, P., Iannella, M., Grobbelaar, E. & Biondi, M. 2022. Calotheca nigromaculata species-group from sub-Saharan Africa with descriptions of two new species from KwaZulu-Natal (Chrysomelidae, Galerucinae, Alticini). ZooKeys 1084: 119-137. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1084.73175 . Reference page.

D’Alessandro, P., Grobbelaar, E., Iannella, M. & Biondi, M. 2023. Calotheca leonardii, a new flea beetle species from southern Africa (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae: Alticini). Natural History Sciences 10(s1): 5–10. DOI: 10.4081/nhs.2023.681 . Reference page.