Neofidia guatemalensis

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 guatemalensis

Name

Neofidia guatemalensis (Jacoby, 1880)

Lectotype: BMNH. ♂. "Type [white disc with red border] / SYN-TYPE [white disc with blue border] / Duenas Guatemala, C. Champion / Fidia guatemalensis Jac. [blue, handwritten] / B.C.A. 167.7 / LECTOTYPE Fidia guatemalensis Jacoby design. M.S.Strother 1993 [red]". (designated by Strother in Strother & Staines, 2008: 40)

Paralectotypes: BMNH. 6♀♀. "SYN-TYPE [white disc with blue border] / Capetillo, Guatemala, C. Champion / B.C.A. 167.7 / PARALECTOTYPE Fidia guatemalensis Jacoby design. M. S. Strother 1993 [yellow]". [In addition to these labels, one of the females bears the label, "Type. Sp. figured.", as its second label.]

Type locality: "Dueñas, Capetillo (Guatemala)".

Synonymy

Fidia guatemalensis Jacoby, 1880: 778
Neofidia guatemalensis: Kumari et al., 2020: 6

References

Primary references

Jacoby, M. 1880 ("1879"). Descriptions of new Species of Phytophagous Coleoptera. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1879: 773–793. DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.1879.tb02716.x . BHL.
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.
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. [as Fidia guatemalensis]