Aoria (beetle)

Aoria
Aoria scutellaris, South Korea
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Suborder: Polyphaga
Infraorder: Cucujiformia
Family: Chrysomelidae
Subfamily: Eumolpinae
Tribe: Bromiini
Genus: Aoria
Baly, 1863[1]
Type species
Adoxus nigripes
Baly, 1860
Synonyms

Pseudaoriana Pic, 1930

Aoria is a genus of leaf beetles in the subfamily Eumolpinae. Members of the genus are distributed in East and Southeast Asia.[2][3][4] Food plants are known for only a few species, all of which were recorded from Vitaceae.[5]

Four genera similar to Aoria are known: Aloria, Enneaoria, Osnaparis and Pseudaoria. Osnaparis is regarded as a subgenus of Aoria by some researchers.[6] In a revision of the genus Aoria in 2012, L. N. Medvedev included both Osnaparis and Pseudaoria as subgenera of Aoria, and treated Enneaoria as a synonym of Aloria.[5]

Species

Subgenus Aoria Baly, 1863

  • Aoria annulipes Pic, 1935 – China
  • Aoria antennata Chen, 1940 – East China (Zhejiang, Jiangxi)
  • Aoria atra Pic, 1923 – Southwest China (Yunnan), North Vietnam
  • Aoria bicoloripes Pic, 1935 – Vietnam
  • Aoria bowringii (Baly, 1860)[7] – South China, Indochina, Taiwan, India, Burma, Malacca, Borneo
  • Aoria brancuccii Medvedev, 2012[5] – North India
  • Aoria carinata Tan, 1993 – Central China (Hunan)
  • Aoria costata Tan, 1992 – Central China (Hunan)
  • Aoria cuprea Medvedev, 2012[5] – Southwest China (Sichuan, Yunnan)
  • Aoria cyanea Chen, 1940 – Northwest China (Gansu)
  • Aoria fulva Medvedev, 2012[5] – North China (Shanxi)
  • Aoria fulvula Medvedev, 2012[8] – North Vietnam
  • Aoria gracilicornis Chen, 1940 – East China (Shandong)
  • Aoria heinzi Medvedev, 2012[5] – Southwest China (Sichuan)
  • Aoria humeralis Medvedev, 2019[9] – North Vietnam
  • Aoria marginipennis Medvedev, 2012[5] – Southwest China (Sichuan)
  • Aoria martensi Medvedev, 2012[5] – Northwest China (Shaanxi)
  • Aoria nepalica Medvedev & Sprecher-Uebersax, 1997 – Nepal
  • Aoria nigripennis Gressitt & Kimoto, 1961 – South China: (Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi)
  • Aoria nigripes (Baly, 1860)[7] – South China, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, Burma, India, Nepal, Taiwan, Malacca, Sumatra
  • Aoria nigromarginata Medvedev, 2012[5] – South China (Fujian)
  • Aoria panfilovi Medvedev, 2012[5] – Southwest China (Sichuan)
  • Aoria rufotestacea Fairmaire, 1889 – South China (Xikang, Guizhou, Hubei, Jiangsu, Zhejiang)
  • Aoria scutellaris Pic, 1923
    • Aoria scutellaris rufipennis Pic, 1923 – Southwest China (North Sichuan)
    • Aoria scutellaris scutellaris Pic, 1923 – South-east China, west to Sichuan, north and central Vietnam
  • Aoria semicostata Jacoby, 1892
  • Aoria thibetana Pic, 1928 – West China (Tibet, Yunnan)
  • Aoria vietnamica Medvedev, 2012[5] – North Vietnam

Subgenus Osnaparis Fairmaire, 1889 (sometimes considered a separate genus)

  • Aoria laosica Medvedev, 2012[5] – Laos
  • Aoria lushuiensis Tan, 1992 – Southwest China (Yunnan)
  • Aoria montana Tan, 1992 – Southwest China (Sichuan)
  • Aoria nucea (Fairmaire, 1889) – China (Xikang, Sichuan, Hubei, Jiangxi, Hebei), North Vietnam, Japan, Taiwan
  • Aoria pallidipennis Pic, 1928 – North Vietnam, Taiwan, Thailand

Subgenus Pseudaoria Jacoby, 1908[3] (sometimes considered a separate genus)

  • Aoria burmanica (Jacoby, 1908)[3] – India (Manipur), Myanmar
  • Aoria coerulea (Jacoby, 1908)[3] – India (Manipur), Myanmar
  • Aoria floccosa (Tan, 1992) – Southwest China (Hengduan Mountains)
  • Aoria irregulare (Tan, 1992) – Southwest China (Sichuan)
  • Aoria petri (Warchałowski, 2010)[10] – Southwest China (Sichuan)
  • Aoria rufina (Gressitt & Kimoto, 1961) – Southwest China (Sichuan)
  • Aoria yunnana (Tan, 1992) – Southwest China (Yunnan)

References

  1. ^ Baly, J. S. (1863). "An attempt at a classification of the Eumolpidae". The Journal of Entomology. 2: 143–163.
  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. ^ a b c d Jacoby, M. (1908). Bingham, C. T. (ed.). Coleoptera. Chrysomelidae. Vol. 1. The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma. London: Taylor & Francis.
  4. ^ Kimoto, S.; Gressitt, J. L. (1982). "Chrysomelidae (Coleoptera) of Thailand, Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam. III. Eumolpinae" (PDF). Esakia. 18: 1–141. doi:10.5109/2421. hdl:2324/2421. S2CID 83265328.
  5. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Medvedev, L.N. (2012). "Revision of the genus Aoria Baly, 1863 (Chrysomelidae: Eumolpinae) from China and Indochina" (PDF). Russian Entomological Journal. 21 (1): 45–52. doi:10.15298/rusentj.21.1.06.
  6. ^ Moseyko, Alexey G.; Kirejtshuk, Alexander G.; Nel, Andre (2010). "New genera and new species of leaf beetles (Coleoptera: Polyphaga: Chrysomelidae) from Lowermost Eocene French amber". Annales de la Société Entomologique de France. Nouvelle Série. 46 (1–2): 116–123. doi:10.1080/00379271.2010.10697645.
  7. ^ a b Baly, J. S. (1860). "Descriptions of New Genera and Species of Eumolpidae". The Journal of Entomology. 1 (1): 23–36.
  8. ^ Medvedev, L.N. (2012). "New and interesting Chrysomelidae (Insecta: Coleoptera) from the collection of the Naturkundemuseum Erfurt" (PDF). Vernate. 31: 501–515.
  9. ^ Medvedev, L.N. (2019). "New and poorly known Oriental Chrysomelidae (Coleoptera)" (PDF). Russian Entomological Journal. 28 (2): 165–168. doi:10.15298/rusentj.28.2.08.
  10. ^ Warchałowski, A. (2010). "Remarks on the Genus Pseudaoria Jacoby, 1908 with Description of a New Species from China (Chrysomelidae: Eumolpinae)". Annales Zoologici. 60 (3): 337–341. doi:10.3161/000345410X535334. S2CID 84591982.