Genus Altica Geoffroy, 1762

Altica sp., head, frontal view

© Copyright Max Beatson, Australian Museum, Sydney

Altica sp.

© Copyright Max Beatson, Australian Museum, Sydney

Altica sp.

© Copyright Max Beatson, Australian Museum, Sydney

Museums

Regional Maps

• Altica Geoffroy, E.L. 1762. Histoire abregée des insectes qui se trouvent aux environs de Paris, dans laquelle ces animaux sont rangés suivant un ordre méthodique. Paris : Durand Vol. 1 viii 523 pp. pls 1-10. [244].

  Type species:

   Chrysomela oleracea Linnaeus, 1758 by subsequent designation, see Latreille, P.A. 1810. Considération Générales sur l'Order Naturel des Animaux Composant les Classes des Crustacés, des Arachnides et des Insectes; avec un Tableau Méthodique de leurs Genres Disposés en Familles. Paris : F. Schoell viii 444 pp. [this work is the subject of Opinions 11 and 136, ICZN, and is on the Official List of Works approved as available for Zoological Nomenclature].
• Graptodera Chevrolat, L.A.A. 1837. Chrysomélidae. pp. 385-503 in Dejean, P.F.M.A. Catalogue des Coléoptères de la Collection de M. le Comte Dejean. Troisièeme édition, revue, corrigée et augmentée. Paris : Méquignon Marvis Fasc. Vol. 5 xiv 385-503 pp. [412].
• Haltica Illiger, J.C.W. 1801. Namen der Insekten-Gattungen, ihr Genitiv, ihr grammatisches Geschlecht, ihr Silbenmass, ihre Herleitung; zugleich mit den deutschen Bennenungen. Magazin für Insektenkunde (Illiger) 1: 125-155 [138].
• Halticella Germain, P. 1903. Lista de los insectos traidos por los Señores Reiches i Machado de un viaje a Lebu y a La Mocho. Annales del Museo Nacional Chile 16: 49-63 [60].
• Halticoidea Germain, P. 1903. Lista de los insectos traidos por los Señores Reiches i Machado de un viaje a Lebu y a La Mocho. Annales del Museo Nacional Chile 16: 49-63 [57].
• Rybakowia Jacobson, G.G. 1892. Conspectus specierum generis Haltica Geoffr. ex Asia media hucusque notarum. Horae Societatis Entomologicae Rossicae 26: 462-467 [465].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Weise, J. 1882. Naturgeschichte der Insecten Deutschlands, VI. B.: Chrysomelidae. Berlin. 1-1161 pp. [825] (Graptodera Chevrolat, 1836: 412 junior synonym Altica Geoffroy, 1762: 244)
• Heikertinger, F. & Csiki, E. 1939. Chrysomelidae: Halticinae I. Coleopterorum catalogus. Pars 166, S. Schenkling ed. Junk. Gravenhage. 1-336 pp. [217] (synonymies)
• Seeno, T.N. & Wilcox, J.A. 1982. Leaf beetle genera (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae). pp. 1-221 in Eichlin, T.D. & Papp, C.S. (eds). Entomography, An annual review for biosystematics. Sacramento, California : Entomography Publications Vol. 1. [134] (synonymies)

Introduction

See Reid and Beatson (2015) for revision of Australian, Indomalayan and Pacific species of Altica.

Excluded Taxa

Misidentifications

CHRYSOMELIDAE: Altica cyanea Weber, 1801 — Reid, C.A.M. & Beatson, M. 2015. Disentangling a taxonomic nightmare: a revision of the Australian, Indomalayan and Pacific species of Altica Geoffroy, 1762 (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae). Zootaxa 3918(4): 503–551 [538] (restricted to Indonesia and Malaysia)

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gulf Plains (GUP), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE) ; ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, Vic, WA: Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Pine Creek (PCK), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT) ; ACT, NSW, Qld, Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Ben Lomond (BEL), King (KIN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP) ; NT, Qld: Daly Basin (DAB), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW)

General References

Reid, C.A.M. & Beatson, M. 2015. Disentangling a taxonomic nightmare: a revision of the Australian, Indomalayan and Pacific species of Altica Geoffroy, 1762 (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae). Zootaxa 3918(4): 503–551

History of changes