Dumbea (beetle)

Dumbea is a genus of leaf beetles in the subfamily Eumolpinae. It is known from the South Province of New Caledonia, and is named after Dumbéa, a town nearby Nouméa. This name was originally used by the French entomologist Charles Adolphe Albert Fauvel to house several species of Eumolpinae from New Caledonia, but Fauvel's Dumbea was unpublished and is a nomen nudum.[1] The genus was established based on general proportions and body size, and may be polyphyletic or paraphyletic.[2]

Dumbea
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Chrysomelidae
Subfamily: Eumolpinae
Genus: Dumbea
Jolivet, Verma & Mille, 2007[1]
Type species
Dumbea paulaudi
Jolivet, Verma & Mille, 2007[1]

Species

  • Dumbea gigas Jolivet, Verma & Mille, 2007[1]
  • Dumbea paulaudi Jolivet, Verma & Mille, 2007[1]
  • Dumbea striata Jolivet, Verma & Mille, 2007[1]

References

  1. 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.
  2. Gómez-Zurita, J. (2017). "Taxonomic notes on New Caledonian Dematochroma samuelsoni Jolivet, Verma et Mille and D. difficilis (Heller) (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae: Eumolpinae)" (PDF). Folia Entomologica Hungarica. 78: 77–82. doi:10.17112/FoliaEntHung.2017.78.77.


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