Species Altica coerulea (Olivier, 1791)

• Haltica coerulea Olivier, A.G. 1791. Encyclopédie Méthodique. Histoire Naturelle. Insectes. Paris : Panckoucke. Vol. 5 pp. 369-793. [590].

  Type data:

   Lectotype NMSZ ♂, East Indies.
  Paralectotype(s) NMSZ 1♀.

  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.
• Haltica elongata Jacoby, M. 1884. Note III. Descriptions of new genera and species of phytophagous Coleoptera from Sumatra. Notes from the Leyden Museum 6: 9–70 [28].

  Type data:

   Lectotype MCZ ♂, "Soeroel[angoen = Surulangun", Sumatra.
  Paralectotype(s) MCZ 1♂ 1♀.

  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 [531].
• Altica brevicosta Weise, J. 1922. Chrysomeliden der Indo-Malayischen Region. Tijdschrift voor Entomologie 65: 39–130 [31 Dec. 1922] [110].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Luzon, Java, Canton, Darjeeling.

 

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 [530] (for Haltica elongata Jacoby)

 

Generic Combinations

• Halcita brevicosta (Weise, 1922). —
  Chen, S.-H. 1933. Some species of Halticinae from Canton. Peking Natural History Bulletin 8: 43–58 [51]
• Altica coerulea (Olivier, 1791).
• Altica elongata (Jacoby, 1884). —
  Kimoto, S. 2001. Checklist of Chrysomelidae of southeast Asia, south of Thailand and west of Irian Jaya of Indonesia, IX. Alticinae. Bulletin of the Institute of Malacology, Tokyo 28: 153–249 [159]

 

Introduction

See Reid and Beatson (2015) for further details.

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Also Indonesia

IBRA

NT, Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Pine Creek (PCK), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), 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 [530]

 

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
		22-Mar-2012	MODIFIED