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Theopea

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Theopea
Theopea bicolor (first row), Theopea bicolorides (second row), and Theopea mouhoti (third row)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Chrysomelidae
Subfamily: Galerucinae
Tribe: Luperini
Subtribe: Luperina
Genus: Theopea
Baly, 1864
Type species
Crioceris impressa
Fabricius, 1801

Theopea is a genus of skeletonizing leaf beetles in the family Chrysomelidae. There are more than 25 described species in Theopea. They are found in Indomalaya and the Palearctic.[1][2] It is closely related to the genera Pseudotheopea and Borneotheopea.

Species

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These 28 species belong to the genus Theopea, divided into three species groups (with nine others considered as species incertae sedis):[3][4][5]

Theopea impressa group:

Theopea flavipalpis group:

Theopea pulchella group:

Species incertae sedis:

References

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  1. ^ "Theopea". GBIF. Retrieved 2021-12-02.
  2. ^ Nie, R-E; Bezděk, J.; Yang, X-K (2017). "How many genera and species of Galerucinae s. str. do we know? Updated statistics (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae). In: Chaboo CS, Schmitt M (Eds) Research on Chrysomelidae". ZooKeys (720): 91–102. Bibcode:2017ZooK..720...91N. doi:10.3897/zookeys.720.13517. PMC 5740445. PMID 29290727.
  3. ^ Lee, Chi-Feng; Bezděk, Jan (2018). "Revision of the genus Theopea Baly (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae) of East Asia: species lacking modified clypeus in males and the T. sauteri species group". Zootaxa. 4508 (3): 334–376. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4508.3.2. PMID 30485982. S2CID 54157332.
  4. ^ Lee, Chi-Feng; Bezděk, Jan (2019). "Revision of the genus Theopea Baly (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae) in Sundaland and the Philippines: Redefinition of the genus". Zootaxa. 4683 (4): 451–507. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4683.4.1. PMID 31715907. S2CID 207937416.
  5. ^ Lee, Chi-Feng; Bezděk, Jan (2020). "Revision of the Theopea genus group (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Galerucinae), part III: Descriptions of two new genera and nine new species". ZooKeys (912): 65–124. Bibcode:2020ZooK..912...65L. doi:10.3897/zookeys.912.47719. PMC 7040049. PMID 32123500.