Theopea

Theopea is a genus of skeletonizing leaf beetles in the family Chrysomelidae. There are more than 25 described species in Theopea. They are found in Indomalaya and the Palearctic.[1][2] It is closely related to the genera Pseudotheopea and Borneotheopea.

Theopea
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Chrysomelidae
Subfamily: Galerucinae
Tribe: Luperini
Subtribe: Luperina
Genus: Theopea
Baly, 1864
Type species
Crioceris impressa
Fabricius, 1801

Species

These 28 species belong to the genus Theopea, divided into three species groups (with nine others considered as species incertae sedis):[3][4][5]

Theopea impressa group:

  • Theopea chungi Lee & Bezdĕk, 2019
  • Theopea impressa (Fabricius, 1801)
  • Theopea longicollis (Jacoby, 1896)
  • Theopea louwerensi Jolivet, 1951
  • Theopea lunduensis Mohamedsaid, 1998

Theopea flavipalpis group:

  • Theopea flavipalpis Laboissiere, 1940
  • Theopea guoi Lee & Bezdĕk, 2019
  • Theopea lui Lee & Bezdĕk, 2019
  • Theopea sabahensis Lee & Bezdĕk, 2019

Theopea pulchella group:

  • Theopea bicolor Kimoto, 1989
  • Theopea bicoloroides Lee & Bezděk, 2020
  • Theopea elegantula Baly, 1864
  • Theopea fairmairei Duvivier, 1885
  • Theopea houjayi Lee & Bezdĕk, 2019
  • Theopea kedenburgi Weise, 1922
  • Theopea mouhoti Baly, 1864
  • Theopea pulchella Baly, 1864
  • Theopea tsoui Lee & Bezdĕk, 2019
  • Theopea yuae Lee & Bezdĕk, 2019

Species incertae sedis:

  • Theopea clypeata Jacoby, 1896
  • Theopea dohrni (Jacoby, 1889)
  • Theopea incostata (Allard, 1889)
  • Theopea intermedia (Jacoby, 1889)
  • Theopea modiglianii Jacoby, 1896
  • Theopea obliterata Jacoby, 1884
  • Theopea variabilis (Jacoby, 1887)
  • Theopea viridipennis (Jacoby, 1899)
  • Theopea weberi (Weise, 1913)

References
  1. "Theopea". GBIF. Retrieved 2021-12-02.
  2. Nie, R-E; Bezděk, J.; Yang, X-K (2017). "How many genera and species of Galerucinae s. str. do we know? Updated statistics (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae). In: Chaboo CS, Schmitt M (Eds) Research on Chrysomelidae". ZooKeys (720): 91–102. doi:10.3897/zookeys.720.13517. PMC 5740445. PMID 29290727.
  3. Lee, Chi-Feng; Bezděk, Jan (2018). "Revision of the genus Theopea Baly (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae) of East Asia: species lacking modified clypeus in males and the T. sauteri species group". Zootaxa. 4508 (3): 334–376. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4508.3.2.
  4. Lee, Chi-Feng; Bezděk, Jan (2019). "Revision of the genus Theopea Baly (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae) in Sundaland and the Philippines: Redefinition of the genus". Zootaxa. 4683 (4): 451–507. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4683.4.1.
  5. Lee, Chi-Feng; Bezděk, Jan (2020). "Revision of the Theopea genus group (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Galerucinae), part III: Descriptions of two new genera and nine new species". ZooKeys. 912: 65–124. doi:10.3897/zookeys.912.47719.


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