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Issue: Vol. 58 No. 1: 22 Nov. 2024
Type: Article
Published: 2024-11-22
DOI: 10.12976/jib/2024.58.1.1
Page range: 1-7
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Flea beetles of the West Indies: a new generic placement for Aphthona lamprocyanea Blake (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae: Alticini), a spurge eating flea beetle from Puerto Rico

Systematic Entomology Laboratory, USDA, c/o Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, P. O. Box 37012, Washington, DC 20013-7012, USA
Systematic Entomology Laboratory, USDA, c/o Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, P. O. Box 37012, Washington, DC 20013-7012, USA
Neotropical region phytophagous beetles new genus Euphorbiaceae

Abstract

Encathona gen. nov. is described to accommodate Aphthona lamprocyanea Blake, 1964. It is illustrated and compared to Acallepitrix Bechyné, Apraea Jacoby, Argopistes Motschulsky, Heikertingerella Csiki and Suffrianaltica Konstantinov and Linzmeier.

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