Pseudorupilia
Pseudorupilia ruficollis, South Africa
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Infraorder: Cucujiformia
Family: Chrysomelidae
Subfamily: Galerucinae
Tribe: Luperini
Subtribe: Luperina
Genus: Pseudorupilia
Jacoby, 1893

Pseudorupilia is a genus of swollen restio beetles in the family Chrysomelidae. There are about nine described species in Pseudorupilia. They are found in sub-Saharan Africa.[1][2][3]

Species

These nine species belong to the genus Pseudorupilia:

  • Pseudorupilia bicostata (Allard, 1889)
  • Pseudorupilia careo Grobbelaar, 1995
  • Pseudorupilia chera Grobbelaar, 1995
  • Pseudorupilia grobbelaarae Beenen, 2016
  • Pseudorupilia inconspicua (Jacoby, 1906)
  • Pseudorupilia ruficollis (Fabricius, 1775)
  • Pseudorupilia sepia Grobbelaar, 1995
  • Pseudorupilia sexlineata (Fabricius, 1781) (six-lined leaf beetle)
  • Pseudorupilia sola Grobbelaar, 1995

References

  1. 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.
  2. Grobbelaar, E. (1995). "A revision of the southern African genus Pseudorupilia Jacoby (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae)". African Entomology. 3 (2). Retrieved 2021-11-28.
  3. Wilcox, John A. (1965). A Synopsis of the North American Galerucinae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae). New York State Museum and Science Service.


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