Acrothinium gaschkevitchii
| Acrothinium gaschkevitchii | |
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| Acrothinium gaschkevitchii, Tanabe City, Wakayama Pref., Japan | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Polyphaga |
| Infraorder: | Cucujiformia |
| Family: | Chrysomelidae |
| Subfamily: | Eumolpinae |
| Tribe: | Bromiini |
| Genus: | Acrothinium |
| Species: | A. gaschkevitchii
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| Binomial name | |
| Acrothinium gaschkevitchii (Motschulsky, 1861)[1]
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| Synonyms | |
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Chrysochus gaschkevitchii Motschulsky, 1861 | |
Acrothinium gaschkevitchii is a species of leaf beetle in the family Chrysomelidae. It is distributed in East Asia.[2]
Etymology
The species is named after the wife of Russian diplomat Iosif Goshkevich. She had sent Motschulsky a collection of insects from Japan, including specimens of Acrothinium gaschkevitchii, that she had collected in the vicinity of her residence at Hakodate and during her trips between Honshu and Hokkaido.[1][3]
Description
A. gaschkevitchii has a shiny metallic appearance, and its back is sparsely covered with setae. In the nominate subspecies, A. g. gaschkevitchii, the pronotum is green in color, and the elytra are golden red to copper-color with green at their margins.[4] The other subspecies have different coloration: A. g. tokaraense is generally golden green in color, rarely bright coppery; in A. g. matsuii, the head is green with bluish tinges, the pronotum is greenish violet-blue, with the front edge greenish blue, the elytra are greenish violet with their base and side margins violet; in A. g. shirakii, the head and pronotum are metallic green, with the space between eyes and side of pronotum being bluish or violet-colored, and the elytra are golden or coppery green with a violet color at their margins.[5]
Subspecies
There are five subspecies of A. gaschkevitchii:[2]
- Acrothinium gaschkevitchii gaschkevitchii (Motschulsky, 1861) – East China (Fujian, Jiangxi, Zhejiang), Taiwan, Japan, South Korea[6]
- Acrothinium gaschkevitchii matsuii Nakane, 1956 – Japan (Okinoerabu)
- Acrothinium gaschkevitchii okinawense Nakane, 1985 – Japan (Okinawa)
- Acrothinium gaschkevitchii shirakii Nakane, 1956 – Japan (Amami Ōshima, Okinawa)
- Acrothinium gaschkevitchii tokaraense Nakane, 1956 – Japan (Tokara Islands)
References
- ^ a b Motschulsky, V. de (1861). "Insectes du Japon". Études Entomologiques. 9: 4–39.
- ^ a b 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Gressitt, J.L.; Kimoto, S. (1961). "The Chrysomelidae (Coleopt.) of China and Korea, part 1" (PDF). Pacific Insects Monograph. 1A: 1–299. Retrieved 28 January 2026.
- ^ Nakane, T. (1956). "New or little-known Coleoptera from Japan and its adjacent Regions, XIII". The Scientific Reports of the Saikyo University, Natural Science and Living Science. A Series. 2 (3): 29–44. Retrieved 31 January 2026.
- ^ Cho, H.-W.; An, S.L. (2020). "An annotated checklist of leaf beetles (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) of the Korean Peninsula, with comments and new records". Far Eastern Entomologist. 404: 1–36. doi:10.25221/fee.404.1.
External links
- Media related to Acrothinium gaschkevitchii at Wikimedia Commons