Peniticus

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: Eumolpini
Genus: Peniticus
Species (5): P. antiquus – P. microreticulatus – P. plicatus – P. suffusus – P. wallacei

Name

Peniticus Sharp, 1876: 101

Type species: Peniticus suffusus Sharp, 1876, by subsequent designation by Broun (1921: 664) ['More elongate-oval than the type of the genus (1101), ...', where 1101 is the "Broun species number" for Peniticus suffusus]

References

Primary references

Broun, T. 1921. Descriptions of new genera and species of Coleoptera. Part VII. New Zealand Institute Bulletin (1)(7): 591–665. DOI: 10.5962/bhl.title.12470 BHL Reference page.
Sharp, D. 1876. Descriptions of some new genera and species of New Zealand Coleoptera (concluded from page 77.) Entomologist's monthly magazine 13: 97–102. BHL Reference page. [first availability, see p. 101]

Additional references

Gómez-Zurita, J. 2020. Taxonomic revision of species in the New Zealand endemic genera Peniticus Sharp, 1876 and Pilacolaspis Sharp, 1886 (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae). Austral Entomology 59(4): 701–730. DOI: 10.1111/aen.12503 . Reference page.

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