Thasycles

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Thasycles
Thasycles panieensis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Infraorder: Cucujiformia
Family: Chrysomelidae
Subfamily: Eumolpinae
Tribe: Eumolpini
Genus: Thasycles
Chapuis, 1874[1]
Type species
Thasycles cordiformis
Chapuis, 1874

Thasycles is a genus of leaf beetles in the subfamily Eumolpinae.[2] It is endemic to New Caledonia. For a long time it was treated as a synonym of Dematochroma, until it was reinstated as a valid genus in 2022.[3]

Species[edit]

Eleven species are included in the genus:[3]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Chapuis, F. (1874). "Tome dixième. Famille des phytophages". In Lacordaire, J.T.; Chapuis, F. (eds.). Histoire naturelle des Insectes. Genera des coléoptères. Vol. 10. Paris: Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret. pp. i–iv, 1–455.
  2. ^ Platania, L.; Gómez-Zurita, J. (2023). "Current knowledge on the diversity of Eumolpinae (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae) in New Caledonia". ZooKeys (1177): 41–55. doi:10.3897/zookeys.1177.101293. hdl:10261/337235. PMID 37692319.
  3. ^ a b Gómez-Zurita, J.; Pàmies-Harder, M. (2022). "Phylogenetic restitution and taxonomic revision of the New Caledonian endemic genus Thasycles Chapuis (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae, Eumolpinae)". Zoologischer Anzeiger. 297: 16–41. doi:10.1016/j.jcz.2022.01.003. hdl:10261/260681.
  4. ^ Jolivet, P.; Verma, K.K.; Mille, C. (2007). "New Genera and Species of Eumolpinae from New Caledonia (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae)" (PDF). Revue Française d'Entomologie. Nouvelle Série. 29 (2–3): 77–92.