Neofidia Strother

Kumari, S. Amritha, Moseyko, A. G., Strother, M. S. & Prathapan, K. D., 2020, Neofidia Strother, a new name for Fidia Baly, 1863 and redescription of Fidia kanaraensis (Jacoby, 1895) with a new host record and notes on natural history (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Eumolpinae), European Journal of Taxonomy 654, pp. 1-25 : 5-7

Genus Neofidia Strother nom. nov.

Fidia Dejean, 1836: 412 (catalog), nom. nud.

Atonia Gistel, 1848: 123 (nec Williston 1889, Diptera : Asilidae ) (synonym of Fidia Dejean ), nom. nud. Fidia Baly, 1863: 153 (nec Motschulsky 1861: 22) (original description).

Fidea Glover, 1868: 71 (misspelling).

Fidia Dejean, 1836 – Dejean 1837: 436 (catalog). — Sturm 1843: 295 (catalog). — Crotch 1873: 33 (faunal treatment, species description). — Chapuis 1874: 275 (classification).

Atonia – Gistel 1851: 123.

Fidia Baly, 1863 – Gemminger & Harold 1874: 3376 (catalog). — Lefèvre 1877: 164 (species descriptions); 1885: 75 (catalog, species description). — Henshaw 1885: 108 (catalog). — Lefèvre 1885: 75 (catalog, species description). — Horn 1892: 198 (faunal treatment, species description). — Blatchley 1910: 1142 (faunal treatment). — Clavareau 1914: 76 (catalog). — Leng 1920: 293 (catalog). — Blackwelder 1946: 662 (checklist). — Bechyné 1950: 288 (taxonomic treatment); 1953: 249 (catalog). — Wilcox 1954: 402 (faunal treatment). — Arnett 1963: 928 (faunal treatment). — Balsbaugh & Hays 1972: 73 (faunal treatment). — Riley et al. 2003: 151 (catalog). — Ciegler 2007: 168 (faunal treatment). — Strother et al. 2007: 36 (nomenclature).

Fidia – Walsh, 1867: 87 (species description). — Wilcox 1975: 57 (checklist). — Seeno & Wilcox 1982: 62 (checklist). — Arnett 1985: 376 (faunal treatment). — LeSage 1991: 309 (faunal treatment). — Flowers 1996: 36 (checklist). — Riley et al. 2002: 671 (catalog).

Type species

Fidia lurida Baly, 1863: 153 (not Fidia lurida Dejean, 1836 , nom. nud.)

Etymology

The name Neofidia alludes to the new name for Fidia Baly, 1863 , as well as its Nearctic and Neotropical distribution. The gender is feminine.

Checklist of species

Neofidia albovittata ( Lefèvre, 1877) comb. nov.

Fidia albovittata Lefèvre, 1877: 166

Fidia sallei Lefèvre, 1877: 166

Fidia sallaei Jacoby, 1882: 167 [unjustified emendation]

Fidia unistriata Jacoby, 1882: 168

Neofidia cana ( Horn, 1892) comb. nov.

Fidia cana Horn, 1892: 199 (Fidia)

Neofidia clematis ( Schaeffer, 1904) comb. nov.

Fidia clematis Schaeffer, 1904: 227

Neofidia comalensis (Strother in Strother & Staines, 2008) comb. nov. Fidia comalensis Strother in Strother & Staines, 2008: 29

Neofidia confusa ( Strother, 2003) comb. nov.

Fidia confusa Strother, 2003: 151

Fidia murina Crotch, 1873: 33 [not Glover, 1868: 71]

Neofidia convexicollis (Strother in Strother & Staines, 2008) comb. nov. Fidia convexicollis Strother in Strother & Staines, 2008: 33

Neofidia costaricensis (Strother in Strother & Staines, 2008) comb. nov. Fidia costaricensis Strother in Strother & Staines, 2008: 35

Neofidia delilahae (Strother in Strother & Staines, 2008) comb. nov. Fidia delilahae Strother in Strother & Staines, 2008: 37

Neofidia dicelloposthe (Strother in Strother & Staines, 2008) comb. nov. Fidia dicelloposthe Strother in Strother & Staines, 2008: 38

Neofidia dichroma (Strother in Strother & Staines, 2008) comb. nov. Fidia dichroma Strother in Strother & Staines, 2008: 39

Neofidia guatemalensis ( Jacoby, 1879) comb. nov.

Fidia guatemalensis Jacoby, 1879: 778

Neofidia humeralis ( Lefèvre, 1877) comb. nov.

Fidia humeralis Lefèvre, 1877: 165

Fidia plagiata Lefèvre, 1877: 165

Neofidia longipes ( Melsheimer, 1847) comb. nov.

Eumolpus longipes Melsheimer, 1847: 169

Pachnephorus viticolus Uhler, 1855: 418

Neofidia lurida ( Baly, 1863) comb. nov.

Fidia lurida Baly, 1863: 153

Colaspis flavescens Sturm, 1826: 123 [nom. nud.]

Fidia lurida Dejean, 1836: 412 [nom. nud.]

Fidia viticida Walsh, 1867: 87

Neofidia marraverpa (Strother in Strother & Staines, 2008) comb. nov. Fidia marraverpa Strother in Strother & Staines, 2008: 49

Neofidia papillata (Strother in Strother & Staines, 2008) comb. nov. Fidia papillata Strother in Strother & Staines, 2008: 50

Neofidia pedestris ( Lefèvre, 1877) comb. nov.

Fidia pedestris Lefèvre, 1877: 164

Neofidia pedinops (Strother in Strother & Staines, 2008) comb. nov. Fidia pedinops Strother in Strother & Staines, 2008: 54

Fidia murina Dejean, 1836: 412 [nom. nud.]

Neofidia rileyorum (Strother in Strother & Staines, 2008) comb. nov. Fidia rileyorum Strother in Strother & Staines, 2008: 56

Neofidia spuria ( Lefèvre, 1877) comb. nov.

Fidia spuria Lefèvre, 1877: 165

Fidia atra Jacoby, 1882: 168 (not Motschulsky, 1861)

Neofidia texana ( Schaeffer, 1933) comb. nov.

Fidia viticida var. texana Schaeffer, 1933: 472

Neofidia tibialis ( Jacoby, 1890) comb. nov.

Fidia tibialis Jacoby, 1890: 232

Neofidia xanthonioides (Strother in Strother & Staines, 2008) comb. nov.

Fidia xanthonioides Strother in Strother & Staines, 2008: 94

Remarks

Strother & Staines (2008) provided a diagnosis and description of the genus. Both the genera, Fidia Motschulsky, 1861 and Neofidia Strother nom. nov., belong to the same tribe, Adoxini Baly, 1863 (sensu Moseyko & Kirejtshuk 2013). The Old World genus Fidia can be separated from the New World genus Neofidia Strother nom. nov. by the presence of a tooth on the ventral side of all femora (absent in Neofidia Strother nom. nov.). Another character mentioned by Strother & Staines (2008), the absence of paired apical spurs on the apex of fore tibia, cannot be used for separating these genera as spurs are present in some species of Fidia , at times being small and poorly visible. Among the Old World genera, Neofidia Strother nom. nov. is mostly close to Aoria Baly, 1863 and the similar genera Aloria Bryant, 1939 and Bromius Chevrolat in Dejean, 1836 . It can be separated from Aoria by simple intercoxal mesothoracic process (bifurcated or with two spines in Aoria ), from Aloria by 11-segmented antennae (9-segmented in Aloria ) and from Bromius by the straight fore margin of lateral arms of pronotum (“propleura” of Jacoby 1908; convex in Bromius ).

Distribution

North and Central America ( Strother & Staines 2008)

Generic diagnosis

Body oblong, punctate-setose, frons and vertex hardly differentiated, antenna filiform, longer than ½ to ¾ of body length, second antennomere shorter than first, longer than half of it, shorter than next four or five. Compound eyes lateral, convex and entire, antennal calli triangular, pronotum as long as wide or gently wider than long, narrower than elytra, without lateral margins, fore margin of lateral arms of pronotum (‘propleuron’) straight, legs long and slender, tibia longitudinally carinate, all femora lack a ventral tooth, intermediate and posterior tibiae not emarginate preapically, apex of each tibia with a pair of small spurs, claws bifid.