Theopea pulchella, Baly, 1864

Lee, Chi-Feng & Bezdĕk, Jan, 2019, Revision of the genus Theopea Baly (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae) in Sundaland and the Philippines: Redefinition of the genus, Zootaxa 4683 (4), pp. 451-507 : 478

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4683.4.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:982FE3FB-5610-44A1-AAE3-659B28F45307

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4505258

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FF87D6-FF8C-4453-FF6B-AF8BFCFEFE59

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Plazi

scientific name

Theopea pulchella
status

 

Theopea pulchella species group

Diagnosis. Frons uniform in both sexes. Vertex and pronotum without reticulate microsculpture. Penultimate maxillary palpomere not greatly swollen. Pronotum a little broader than long, 1.1x wider than long; disc with one pair of pointed discal depressions. Procoxal cavities open. Disc of elytra with weak reticulate microsculpture. Male aedeagi broad, 5.8–8.1x longer than wide; apex without notch or with extremely shallow notch; ventral surface with deep notch from apex to behind middle; almost straight in lateral view; basal opening not closed medially; tectum apically tapering, apex not recurved; internal sac with two pair of lateral sclerites. Metatibia without apical spine.

Included species. Theopea elegantula Baly , T. fairmairei Duvivier , T. houjayi sp. nov., T. kedenburgi Weise , Theopea pulchella Baly , T. tsoui s p. nov., and T. yuae sp. nov.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Chrysomelidae

SubFamily

Galerucinae

Genus

Theopea

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