Agelastica

Agelastica
Agelastica alni
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Suborder: Polyphaga
Infraorder: Cucujiformia
Family: Chrysomelidae
Subfamily: Galerucinae
Tribe: Hylaspini
Genus: Agelastica
Chevrolat, 1836
Type species
Chrysomela alni
Synonyms
  • Scholastica Gistel, 1848

Agelastica is a genus of beetles in the family Chrysomelidae.

Species

Note: (*) The latter two species were not mentioned in the Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera, either by Beenen, 2010 (In: Löbl & Smetana, 2010 Eds.), nor update in Bezděk & Sekerka, 2024. This may be as both extralimital origins. Both were mentioned as ’'Incertae sedis'’ in Vassiliades et al. 2025.

Else Agelastica bimaculata (Bertoloni, 1868) is recombined as Hallirhotius bimaculata (Bertoloni, 1868) in Beenen, 2000. Further Agelastica orientalis (Baly, 1878) is a junior subjective synonym of Agelastica alni ssp. glabra (Fischer von Waldheim, 1842) in Bezděk, 2015: 33.

References

  1. ↑ Beenen, R. (2010). "Galerucinae Latreille, 1802". In Löbl, I.; Smetana, A. (eds.). Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera. Volume 6. Chrysomeloidea. Stenstrup, Denmark: Apollo Books. pp. 443–491. ISBN 978-87-88757-84-2.
  2. ↑ Bezděk, J. & Sekerka, L. (eds.) 2024. Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera, Volume 6/2/1. Updated and Revised Second Edition. Chrysomeloidea II (Orsodacnidae, Megalopodidae, Chrysomelidae) – Part 1. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill.
  3. ↑ Vassiliades, D., Geiser, M.F., Barclay, M.V.L., Farrell, W.B., Cristóvão, J, Matsumoto, K., Crowley, L.M., 2025. The genome sequence of the Alder leaf beetle, Agelastica alni (Linnaeus, 1758). Wellcome Open Research 10: 263.
  4. ↑ Beenen, R. 2020. Notes on African Galerucinae and descriptions of new species 2 (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae). Entomologische Blätter und Coleoptera 116: 61–87.
  5. ↑ Bezděk, J. 2015. A review of palaearctic Scelolyperus (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae), with description of S. perreus sp. nov. from Turkey. Annales Zoologici 65(1): 21–39.