Genus Calomela Hope, 1840

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• Calomela Hope, F.W. 1840. The Coleopterist's Manual, containing various families, genera, and species, of beetles, recorded by Linneus and Fabricius. Also, descriptions of newly discovered and unpublished insects. London : Bowdery & Kerby Vol. 3 vi 191 pp. 3 pls. [166].

  Type species:

   Chrysomela curtisi Kirby, 1818 by monotypy.
• Lamprotoptera Motschulsky, V. von 1860. Coléoptères de la Sibérie orientale et en particulier des rives de l'Amour. In, Schrenck, L. von (ed.). Reisen und Forschungen im Amur-Lande in den Jahren 1854-1856. St. Petersburg : L. Schrenk Vol. 2, part 2 77-258 pls vi-xi. [217].

  Type species:

   Chrysomela maculicollis Boisduval, 1845 by original designation.
• Tetratica Motschulsky, V. von 1860. Coléoptères de la Sibérie orientale et en particulier des rives de l'Amour. In, Schrenck, L. von (ed.). Reisen und Forschungen im Amur-Lande in den Jahren 1854-1856. St. Petersburg : L. Schrenk Vol. 2, part 2 77-258 pls vi-xi. [201].

  Type species:

   Chrysomela ruficeps Boisduval, 1835 by original designation.
• Pseudoparopsis Blackburn, T. 1899. Further notes on Australian Coleoptera, with descriptions of new genera and species. Part XXV. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 23: 22-101 [Date published VIII-1899] [99].
• Platysocia Lhoste, J. 1934. Étude des Chrysomelinae de la région Australienne. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 103: 347-362 [357].

  Type species:

   Platysocia parallela Lhoste, 1934 by original designation.
• Carystea Baly, J.S. 1865. Descriptions of new genera and species of Phytophaga. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 3 15: 33-38 [33].

  Type species:

   Australica waterhousei Baly, 1864 by original designation.
• Paralepta Baly, J.S. 1878. Descriptions of genera and species of Australian phytophagous beetles. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 2 13: 458-479 [474].

  Type species:

   Paralepta foveicollis Baly, 1878 by original designation.
• Lamecola Selman, B.J. 1976. Lamecola gen. nov. (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae): A genus new to Australia. Journal of Natural History 10: 681-684 [681].

  Type species:

   Calomela laticollis Lea, 1916 by original designation.
• Parastarycea Selman, B.J. 1977. A review of the genera Carystea Baly and Paralepta Baly (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae). Australian Journal of Zoology 25: 133-145 [138].

  Type species:

   Carystea micans Baly, 1876 by original designation.
• Calolina Lhoste, J. 1934. Étude des Chrysomelinae de la région Australienne. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 103: 347-362 [355].

  Type species:

   Calolina geminata Lhoste, 1934 by original designation.
• Starycea Selman, B.J. 1977. A review of the genera Carystea Baly and Paralepta Baly (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae). Australian Journal of Zoology 25: 133-145 [133].

  Type species:

   Carystea jansoni Baly, 1865 by original designation.
• Callimela Agassiz, J.L.R. 1846. Nomenclatur zoologici index universalis continens nomina systematica classium, ordinarum, familiarum et generum animalium omnium tam viventium quam fossilium, secundum ordinem alphabeticum unicum disposita, adjectis homonymiis plantarum, nec non variis adnotationibus et emendationibus. Soloduri [Solothurn, Switzerland] : Jent et Gassmann viii + 393 pp. [unnecessary emendation of Calomela Hope].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Baly, J.S. 1856. Monograph of the Australian species of Chrysomela, Phyllocharis and allied genera (continued). Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London n.s. 3(7): 241-265 [Date published 4 Feb. 1856] [241] (Australica Chevrolat 1842: 358 senior synonym Calomela Hope, 1840: 166)
• Weise, J. 1916. Chrysomelidae: 12. Chrysomelinae. Schenkling, S. (ed.) Coleopterorum Catalogus. Pars 68. Berlin : Junk. 1-255 pp. [192] (Lamprotoptera Motschulsky, 1860: 217 and Tetratica Motschulsky, 1860: 201 junior synonyms Calomela Hope, 1840:166)
• Selman, B.J. 1977. A review of the genera Carystea Baly and Paralepta Baly (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae). Australian Journal of Zoology 25: 133-145 [142] (Paralepta Baly, 1878: 474 junior synonym Carystea Baly, 1865: 33)
• Selman, B.J. 1979. A reappraisal of the Australian species of the genus Calomela Hope (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae). Australian Journal of Zoology 27: 561-584 [565] (Pseudoparopsis Blackburn, 1899: 99 junior synonym Calomela Hope, 1840: 166)
• Daccordi, M. 1994. Notes for the phylogenetic study of Chrysomelinae, with descriptions of new taxa and a list of all the known genera. pp. 60-84 in Furth, D. (ed.). Proceedings of the 3rd International Symposium on Chrysomelidae, Bejing, 1992. Leiden : Backhuys 150 pp. [81] (Platysocia Lhoste, 1934: 357 and Lamecola Selman, 1876: 681 junior synonyms Carystea Baly, 1865: 33. subgenus of Calomela Hope, 1840: 166. Starycea Selman, 1977: 133 junior synonym Calolina Lhoste, 1934: 355 subgenus of Calomela; Parastarycea Selman, 1977: 138 subgenus of Calomela)

Distribution

States

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

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Kanmantoo (KAN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), 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), Stony Plains (STP), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP) ; ACT, NSW, Qld, SA, Vic: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Wet Tropics (WT) ; ACT, NSW, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Ben Lomond (BEL), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE) ; NSW, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Esperance Plains (ESP), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), King (KIN), Mallee (MAL), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Diagnosis References

Chu, H.V. & Reid, C. 2018. A new species of Calomela Hope in southeastern Australia and validation of the generic name (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Chrysomelinae). Australian Entomologist 45(4): 475-488 [485] (modification to the key of Selman (1979: 569) to include a new species)

General References

Reid, C.A.M. 2006. A taxonomic revision of the Australian Chrysomelinae, with a key to the genera (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae). Zootaxa 1292: 1-119 [53] (diagnostic description)

History of changes