Species Altica aenea (Olivier, 1808)

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• Galeruca aenea Olivier, A.G. 1808. Entomologie, ou Histoire Naturelle des Insectes, avec leurs caractères génériques et spécifiques, leur description, leur synonymie, et leur figure enluminée. Coléoptères. Paris : Desray Vol. 6 890 pp. [646, pl. 4, fig. 56].

  Type data:

   Neotype BPBM, Java Bogor.

  Subsequent designation 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 [513].
• Haltica ignea Blackburn, T. 1889. Further notes on Australian Coleoptera, with descriptions of new genera and species. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2 3: 1387-1506 [Date published 22 March 1889] [1494].

  Type data:

   Lectotype SAMA I.3017 "LH specimen of 2 on card/ TY", Northern Territory.
  Paralectotype(s) SAMA 3 specimens.

  Subsequent designation 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 [514].
• Haltica australis Blackburn, T. 1889. Further notes on Australian Coleoptera, with descriptions of new genera and species. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2 3: 1387-1506 [Date published 22 March 1889] [1493].

  Type data:

   Lectotype SAMA "LH specimen of 2 on card/ N. Territory", Northern Territory.
  Paralectotype(s) SAMA 4 specimens.

  Subsequent designation 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 [514].
• Haltica bicolora Jacoby, M. 1904. Descriptions of new genera and species of phytophagous Coleoptera obtained by Dr Loria in New Guinea. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Genova 41: 469-514 [482].
• Altica jussiaeae Gressitt, J.L. 1955. Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae. Insects of Micronesia 17(1): 1–60 [34].

  Type data:

   Holotype BPBM, Palau.
  Paratype(s) BPBM 1♂, Yap I., Yap Gr. Caroline; BPBM 1♀, Yap I, Caroline Is.; BPBM 1♂, Bebelthuap, Ngaremeskang; BPBM 1♂, Peleliu I, north central Pelew Is.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• 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 (for synonymy of bicolora, australis and jussiaeae and for stat. rev. for aenea)

 

Generic Combinations

• Altica aenea (Olivier, 1808). —
  Gressitt, J.L. & Kimoto, S. 1963. The Chrysomelidae (Coleopt.) of China and Korea. Part 2. Pacific Insects Monographs 1B: 301–1026 [25 Feb. 1963] [890]
• Haltica aenea (Olivier, 1808). —
  Heikertinger, F. & Csiki, E. 1939. Chrysomelidae: Halticinae I. Coleopterorum catalogus. Pars 166, S. Schenkling ed. Junk. Gravenhage. 1-336 pp. [247]
• Altica australis (Blackburn, 1889). —
  Gressitt, J.L. & Kimoto, S. 1963. The Chrysomelidae (Coleopt.) of China and Korea. Part 2. Pacific Insects Monographs 1B: 301–1026 [25 Feb. 1963] [890]

 

Introduction

See Reid & Beatson (2015) for full details.

 

Distribution

States

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

Extra Distribution Information

India to China, Japan, Indonesia, New Guinea, Western Pacific

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, Vic, WA: Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Pine Creek (PCK), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

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

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
23-Mar-2015	Galerucinae Latreille, 1802	19-Mar-2015	MODIFIED
23-Mar-2012		23-Mar-2012	MODIFIED
		29-Mar-2010	MODIFIED