Eupales

Eupales is a genus of leaf beetles in the subfamily Eumolpinae. They are found in Southeast Europe, mostly in Hungary, the Balkan Peninsula, and Turkey. The genus contains only one species, Eupales ulema. In Verma et al. (2005), the genus is placed as the only member of the tribe Eupalini.[2] However, the name "Eupalini" was not explicitly indicated as new, so it is currently considered an unavailable name according to the ICZN. In the sixth volume of the Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera and in Bouchard et al. (2011), the genus is placed as incertae sedis within Eumolpinae instead.[3]

For the longhorn beetle genus formerly named "Eupales", see Eupalessa.

Eupales
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Chrysomelidae
Subfamily: Eumolpinae
Tribe: incertae sedis
Genus: Eupales
Lefèvre, 1885[1]
Species:
E. ulema
Binomial name
Eupales ulema
(Germar, 1813)
Synonyms
Genus
Species
  • Colaspis ulema Germar, 1813
  • Eupales ulema var. viridis Pic, 1916

Eupales is recognised by some authors as a primitive member of Eumolpinae, and it shares some features with the Spilopyrinae.[2]

The genus was originally known as Pales, named by Chevrolat in Dejean's catalogue in 1836, but this was preoccupied by the fly genus Pales Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830. The replacement name "Eupales" was created by Édouard Lefèvre in 1885. Floricola is an older available name for the genus, created by Gistel in 1848; however, almost all authors have used Eupales in the last 125 years.[3] An application to ICZN was sent in 2009 to conserve both the names Eupales and Eupalini,[4] but the case was never published.[5]

References
  1. Lefèvre, É. (1885). "Eumolpidarum hucusque cognitarum catalogus, sectionum conspectu systematico, generum sicut et specierum nonnullarum novarum descriptionibus adjunctis". Mémoires de la Société Royale des Sciences de Liège. 2. 11 (16): 1–172.
  2. Verma, Krishna K.; Gómez-Zurita, Jesús; Jolivet, Pierre; Vig, Károly (2005). "Biology of Eupales ulema (Germar, 1813) and its taxonomic placement among Eumolpinae (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae)". Nouvelle Revue d'Entomologie. Nouvelle Série. 22 (2): 155–164.
  3. Bouchard, Patrice; Bousquet, Yves; Davies, Anthony E.; Alonso-Zarazaga, Miguel A.; Lawrence, John F.; Lyal, Chris H. C.; Newton, Alfred F.; Reid, Chris A. M.; Schmitt, Michael; Ślipiński, S. Adam; Smith, Andrew B. T. (2011). "Family-group names in Coleoptera (Insecta)". ZooKeys (88): 1–972. doi:10.3897/zookeys.88.807. PMC 3088472. PMID 21594053.
  4. ICZN (2009). "Articles". Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature. 66 (3): 203–241. doi:10.21805/bzn.v66i3.a1.
  5. Bouchard, Patrice; Bousquet, Yves (2020). "Additions and corrections to "Family-group names in Coleoptera (Insecta)"". ZooKeys. 922: 65–139. doi:10.3897/zookeys.922.46367.


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