Rhyparidella
Genus of leaf beetles
Rhyparidella is a genus of leaf beetles in the subfamily Eumolpinae . It is distributed in New Guinea , New Britain , Vanuatu and the Solomon Islands . It resembles the genus Rhyparida , but differs from it by having smaller eyes, lacking a "Y"-shaped suture on the frontoclypeus (a combined frons and clypeus , making up part of the face), generally having a small tooth on the underside of each femur on the legs, and being uniformly small-sized.
Species
Rhyparidella arachi (Gressitt , 1964) – Papua New Guinea (East Sepik )
Rhyparidella aviceps Gressitt , 1969 – Western New Guinea : West Papua (Fakfak , Manokwari )
Rhyparidella bicolor Gressitt , 1969 – Western New Guinea: Central Papua (Dogiyai , Paniai )
Rhyparidella buxtoni (Bryant, 1936) – Vanuatu
Rhyparidella cacaona (Gressitt , 1966) – New Britain (Gazelle Peninsula , Willaumez Peninsula )
Rhyparidella casuarinae (Gressitt , 1964) – Papua New Guinea (Eastern Highlands , Western Highlands , Chimbu )
Rhyparidella cobaltina Gressitt , 1969 – Papua New Guinea (Central )
Rhyparidella corpulenta Gressitt , 1969 – Woodlark
Rhyparidella fakfaka Gressitt , 1969 – Western New Guinea: West Papua (Fakfak)
Rhyparidella fordi Gressitt , 1969 – Papua New Guinea (Morobe , Southern Highlands , Eastern Highlands, Jiwaka )
Rhyparidella fulva Medvedev, 2009 – Western New Guinea: West Papua (Arfak Mountains )
Rhyparidella hibisci (Gressitt , 1964) – Papua New Guinea (Gulf )
Rhyparidella nigripennis Medvedev, 2009 – Western New Guinea: Highland Papua (Jayawijaya )
Rhyparidella ovipennis Medvedev, 2009 – Western New Guinea: Highland Papua (Jayawijaya)
Rhyparidella quadripustulata (Jacoby , 1884) – Biak , Yapen
Rhyparidella riedeli Medvedev, 2009 – Western New Guinea: West Papua (Arfak Mountains)
Rhyparidella rufocapitis Medvedev, 2009 – Western New Guinea: West Papua (Arfak Mountains)
Rhyparidella rufometallica Gressitt , 1969 – Papua New Guinea (Enga , Sandaun , Madang )
Rhyparidella sewana Gressitt , 1969 – Normanby Island
Rhyparidella sobrina (Bryant, 1950) – Western New Guinea: Papua
Rhyparidella suturalis Medvedev, 2009 – Western New Guinea: Highland Papua (Jayawijaya)
Rhyparidella wauensis Gressitt , 1969 – Papua New Guinea (Morobe)
Rhyparidella weisei Medvedev, 2009 – Western New Guinea
References
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Gressitt, J. L. (1969). "Chrysomelid beetles from the Papuan subregion, 6 (Eumolpinae, 4)" (PDF) . Pacific Insects . 11 (1): 1– 31.
1 2 Gómez-Zurita, J. (2024). "Additions and taxonomic remarks on the Eumolpinae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) from Vanuatu and the Solomon Islands" (PDF) . Journal of Tropical Coleopterology . 5 (1): 1– 27. Retrieved 2 January 2026 .
↑ Bryant, G. E. (1936). "Insects of the New Hebrides: Chrysomelidæ". Annals and Magazine of Natural History . 10. 17 (98): 242– 256. doi :10.1080/00222933608655116 .
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Medvedev, Lev N. (2009). "New genera and species of Zeugophorinae and Eumolpinae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) from New Guinea" (PDF) . Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde A, Neue Serie . 2 : 371– 408. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-08-30. Retrieved 2018-08-01 .
↑ Jacoby, M. (1884). "Description of new genera and species of Phytophagous Coleoptera from the Indo-Malayan and Austro-Malayan sub-regions, contained in the Genoa Civic Museum. First Part" . Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova . 20 : 188– 233.
↑ Bryant, G. E. (1950). "New species of Chrysomelidæ (Coleoptera) from New Guinea, collected by Miss L. E. Cheesman (contd.)". Annals and Magazine of Natural History . 12. 3 (27): 209– 219. doi :10.1080/00222935008654708 .