Eupetale Flowers, 2021

Flowers, R. Wills, 2021, A New Genus for Two Orphaned Species of Lycaste Gistel (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Eumolpinae), The Coleopterists Bulletin 75 (3), pp. 700-701 : 700

Eupetale Flowers , new genus zoobank.org/ urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:8FAA1EDE-D228-48F5-86F5-92D2B2292B54

Type Species. Lycaste trichoa Gistel, 1848 . Etymology. The name is from Greek mythology: Eupetale was one of the nurses of Dionysus and a sister of Lycaste (Parada and Förlag 1997) .

Diagnosis. The large body size (> 10 mm), anterior margin of prosternum not excavated or raised, large submedian spurs on female sternum VII, and appen- diculate claws will separate this genus from other Neotropical Eumolpinae . Eupetale is most similar to Eumolpus Hope and Longeumolpus Springlová , two other large, blue eumolpine genera, but can be dis- tinguished by the unexcavated pronotum, appendic- ulate claws, and the abdominal spurs in the females. A full description and figures of Eupetale can be found in Flowers (2003; as Lycaste ). As Gistel’s orig- inal specimen appears to be lost (M. Balke, Zoologische Staatssammlung München, in litt.), a neotype is here designated for the type species.