Neofidia confusa

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: Eumolpinae
Tribus: Bromiini
Genus: Neofidia
Species: Neofidia confusa

Name

Neofidia confusa (Strother, 2003)

Lectotype: MCZ. ♂. "C. Mo. / JUNE. / Horn Coll H 6725 / LECTOTYPE Fidia murina Crotch design. M.S.Strother 1993 [red]" (designated by Strother in Riley, Clark & Seeno, 2003: 192)

Paralectotypes:

• MCZ. 2♂♂, 2♀♀. no data, "J.L. LeConte Collection / PARALECTOTYPE Fidia murina Crotch design. M. S. Strother 1993 [yellow]".
• MCZ. 1♀. "Ill. [handwritten] / J.L. LeConte Collection / PARALECTOTYPE Fidia murina Crotch design. M. S. Strother 1993 [yellow]".

Type locality: "Middle and Southern States".

Synonymy

• Fidia murina Crotch, 1873: 33 [nec Fidia murina Glover, 1868]
• Fidia confusa Strother in Riley, Clark & Seeno, 2003: 151 [new replacement name for Fidia murina Crotch, 1873]
• Neofidia confusa: Kumari et al., 2020: 6

References

Primary references

• 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. 
• Kumari, S.A., Moseyko, A.G., Strother, M.S. & Prathapan, K.D. 2020. Neofidia Strother, a new name for Fidia Baly, 1863 and redescription of Fidia kanaraensis (Jacoby, 1895) with a new host record and notes on natural history (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Eumolpinae). European Journal of Taxonomy 654: 1–25. DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2020.654 . 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. 

Additional references

• Strother, M.S. & Staines, C.L. 2008. A revision of the New World genus Fidia Baly 1863 (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Eumolpinae: Adoxini). Zootaxa 1798: 1–100. Abstract & excerpt DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1798.1.1 . ResearchGate, ResearchGate . Reference page.