Acrothinium

Acrothinium is a genus of leaf beetles in the subfamily Eumolpinae. It contains three species, which are distributed in East Asia.[2]

Acrothinium
Acrothinium gaschkevitchii
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Chrysomelidae
Subfamily: Eumolpinae
Tribe: Bromiini
Genus: Acrothinium
Marshall, 1865[1]
Type species
Chrysochus gaschkevitchii

Species

Synonyms:

  • Acrothinium hirsutum Tan & Wang, 2005:[4] moved to Heterotrichus[5]
  • Acrothinium piffli Mandl, 1965: synonym of Colasposoma ornatum Jacoby, 1881[5]
  • Acrothinium violaceum Jacoby, 1889: synonym of Heterotrichus balyi Chapuis, 1874[6]

References

  1. Marshall, T. A. (1864). "Corynodinorum Recensio". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 8 (29): 24–50. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1864.tb02004.x.
  2. Moseyko, A. G.; Sprecher-Uebersax, E. (2010). "Eumolpinae". In Löbl, I.; Smetana, A. (eds.). Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera. Volume 6. Chrysomeloidea. Stenstrup, Denmark: Apollo Books. pp. 619–643. ISBN 978-87-88757-84-2.
  3. Jacoby, M. (1888). "Descriptions of new species of phytophagous Coleoptera from Kiukiang (China)". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 1888: 339–351. doi:10.1111/j.1469-7998.1888.tb06712.x.
  4. Tan, J.; Wang, S.; Zhou, S. (2005). "Coleoptera. Eumolpidae Eumolpinae" (PDF). Fauna Sinica. 40: 1–415.
  5. Moseyko, A. G.; Sprecher-Uebersax, E. (2010). "New nomenclatural and taxonomic acts, and comments. Chrysomelidae: Eumolpinae". In Löbl, I.; Smetana, A. (eds.). Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera. Volume 6. Chrysomeloidea. Stenstrup, Denmark: Apollo Books. pp. 80–83. ISBN 978-87-88757-84-2.
  6. Medvedev, L. N. (2001). "Jacoby's types of Chrysomelidae (Coleoptera) from Burma in the Museo Civico di Storia Naturale "Giacomo Doria", Genoa. Part 1". Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale "Giacomo Doria". 93: 167–184.


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