Thasycles
| Thasycles | |
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| Thasycles panieensis | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Family: | Chrysomelidae |
| Subfamily: | Eumolpinae |
| Tribe: | Eumolpini |
| Genus: | Thasycles Chapuis, 1874[1] |
| Type species | |
| Thasycles cordiformis Chapuis, 1874
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Thasycles is a genus of leaf beetles in the subfamily Eumolpinae. It is endemic to New Caledonia. For a long time it was treated as a synonym of Dematochroma, until it was reinstated as a valid genus in 2022.[2]
Species
Eleven species are included in the genus:[2]
- Thasycles castaneus Gómez-Zurita, 2022
- Thasycles compactus Gómez-Zurita, 2022
- Thasycles cordiformis Chapuis, 1874
- Thasycles fuscus (Jolivet, Verma & Mille, 2007)
- Thasycles grandis Gómez-Zurita, 2022
- Thasycles laboulbenei (Montrouzier, 1861)
- Thasycles magnus Gómez-Zurita, 2022
- Thasycles panieensis (Jolivet, Verma & Mille, 2007)[3]
- Thasycles puncticollis Gómez-Zurita, 2022
- Thasycles tenuis Gómez-Zurita, 2022
- Thasycles variegatus Gómez-Zurita, 2022
References
- ^ Chapuis, F. (1874). "Tome dixième. Famille des phytophages". In Lacordaire, J.T.; Chapuis, F. (eds.). Histoire naturelle des Insectes. Genera des coléoptères. Paris: Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret. pp. i–iv, 1–455.
- ^ a b Gómez-Zurita, J.; Pàmies-Harder, M. (2022). "Phylogenetic restitution and taxonomic revision of the New Caledonian endemic genus Thasycles Chapuis (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae, Eumolpinae)". Zoologischer Anzeiger. 297: 16–41. doi:10.1016/j.jcz.2022.01.003.
- ^ Jolivet, P.; Verma, K.K.; Mille, C. (2007). "New Genera and Species of Eumolpinae from New Caledonia (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae)" (PDF). Revue Française d'Entomologie. Nouvelle Série. 29 (2–3): 77–92.