Pseudotheopea is a genus of skeletonizing leaf beetles in the family Chrysomelidae. There are more than 20 described species in Pseudotheopea, found in Indomalaya and the Palearctic.[1][2] It is closely related to the genus Theopea.
| Pseudotheopea | |
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| Pseudotheopea smaragdina | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Infraorder: | Cucujiformia |
| Family: | Chrysomelidae |
| Subfamily: | Galerucinae |
| Tribe: | Luperini |
| Subtribe: | Luperina |
| Genus: | Pseudotheopea Lee & Bezdek, 2020 |
| Type species | |
| Theopea sauteri Chûjô, 1935
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Species
editThese 24 species belong to the genus Pseudotheopea, divided into three species groups (with five other species currently unassigned to any group):[1][2]
Pseudotheopea sauteri group:
- Pseudotheopea coerulea (Gressitt & Kimoto, 1963) (China)
- Pseudotheopea geiseri (Lee & Bezděk, 2018) (India)
- Pseudotheopea hainanensis (Lee & Bezděk, 2018) (China)
- Pseudotheopea laosensis (Lee & Bezděk, 2018) (China, Laos, Vietnam)
- Pseudotheopea sauteri (Chûjô, 1935) (Taiwan)
- Pseudotheopea sekerkai (Lee & Bezděk, 2018) (Laos)
Pseudotheopea costata group:
- Pseudotheopea aeneipennis (Gressitt & Kimoto, 1963) (China)
- Pseudotheopea azurea (Gressitt & Kimoto, 1963) (China)
- Pseudotheopea boreri Lee & Bezděk, 2020 (India)
- Pseudotheopea clypealis (Medvedev, 2015) (Vietnam)
- Pseudotheopea costata (Allard, 1889) (Philippines)
- Pseudotheopea gressitti Lee and Bezděk, 2020 (Philippines)
- Pseudotheopea hsingtzungi Lee & Bezděk, 2020 (Laos)
- Pseudotheopea kimotoi Lee & Bezděk, 2020 (Laos, Thailand, Vietnam)
- Pseudotheopea leehsuehae Lee & Bezděk, 2020 (Laos)
- Pseudotheopea smaragdina (Gressitt & Kimoto, 1963) (China)
- Pseudotheopea sufangae Lee & Bezděk, 2020 (Taiwan)
Pseudotheopea similis group:
- Pseudotheopea nigrita (Medvedev, 2007) (Thailand)
- Pseudotheopea similis (Kimoto, 1989) (Laos, Vietnam)
Species unassigned to any species group:
- Pseudotheopea aureoviridis (Chûjô, 1935) (Japan)
- Pseudotheopea cheni (Lee & Bezděk, 2018) (Taiwan)
- Pseudotheopea collaris (Kimoto, 1989) (Taiwan)
- Pseudotheopea irregularis (Takizawa, 1978) (Taiwan)
- Pseudotheopea kanmiyai (Kimoto, 1984) (Taiwan)
References
edit- ^ a b "Pseudotheopea". GBIF. Retrieved 2021-12-02.
- ^ a b 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. Bibcode:2020ZooK..912...65L. doi:10.3897/zookeys.912.47719. PMC 7040049. PMID 32123500.
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