Genus Chalcomela Baly, 1856

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• Paropsipacha 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. [192].
• Chalcomela 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] [256].

  Type species:

   Chalcomela illudens Baly, 1856 by subsequent designation, see Reid, C.A.M. 2006. A taxonomic revision of the Australian Chrysomelinae, with a key to the genera (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae). Zootaxa 1292: 1-119 [57].

  Secondary source:

   Baly, J.S. 1855. Monograph of the Australian species of Chrysomela, Phyllocaris and allied genera. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 3(5): 170-186 [170] (Chalcomela nom. nud.).
• Micromela 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] [260].

  Type species:

   Micromela cupripennis Baly, 1856 by monotypy.
• Cyclomela 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] [257].

  Type species:

   Cyclomela nitida Baly, 1856 by monotypy.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Blackburn, T. 1899. Revision of the genus Paropsis. Part V. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 24(3): 482-521 [520] (Paropsipacha Motschulsky, 1860: 192 junior synonym Cyclomela Baly, 1856: 257 by synonymisation of type species)
• 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. [80] (Micromela Baly, 1856: 260 subgenus of Chalcomela Baly, 1856: 258)
• Reid, C.A.M. 2006. A taxonomic revision of the Australian Chrysomelinae, with a key to the genera (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae). Zootaxa 1292: 1-119 [57] (Cyclomela Baly, 1856: 257 junior synonym Chalcomela Baly, 1856: 258)

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), 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), Sturt Plateau (STU), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL) ; NSW, Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

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 [57] (diagnostic description, food plants)

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