Genus Peltoschema Reitter, 1880

Museums

Regional Maps

• Peltoschema Reitter, E. 1880. Neun neue Clavicornier (Coleoptera). Verhandlungen des naturforschenden Vereines in Brunn 18 (1879). 1-6 pp. [4].

  Type species:

   Peltoschema filicornis Reitter, 1880 by monotypy.
• Acacicola Lea, A.M. 1903. Descriptions of some new species of Australian and Tasmanian Chrysomelidae. Report of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science 9: 384-431 [392].
• Pyrgoides Kelly, P.G. & Reid, C.A.M. 1999. Designation of type species for the genera of Australian Paropsine beetles (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae). Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria, Melbourne 57(2): 263-266 [264] [unnecessary nom. nov. for Pyrgo Weise, 1901; nec Pyrgoides Aslam 1968: 129, nom. nud.].
• Pyrgo Weise, J. 1901. Ein Beitrag zur Kenntniss von the genus Paropsis Oliv. Archiv für Naturgeschichte 67: 164-174 [166].
• Pyrgoides Aslam, N.A. 1968. Nomenclatorial notes on Chrysomeloidea (Coleoptera). Journal of Natural History 2: 127-129 [129] [nom. nov. for Pyrgo Weise, 1901: 166; nom. nud.].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Reid, C.A.M. & Ślipiński, A. 2001. Peltoschema Reitter, a hitherto unrecognised Chrysomeline: Redescription and synonymy (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae). The Coleopterists Bulletin 55(3): 330-337 [331] (Acacicola Lea, 1903: 392, Pyrgo Weise, 1901: 166 and Pyrgoides Kelly and Reid, 1999: 264 junior synonyms Peltoschema Reitter, 1880: 4)

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

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), 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) ; NSW, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic: Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), South East Corner (SEC) ; NSW, Qld, SA, Vic: Channel Country (CHC), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD) ; NSW, SA, Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP) ; NSW, SA, Vic: Central Ranges (CR), Finke (FIN), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Nullarbor (NUL), Stony Plains (STP)

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 [86] (diagnostic description, notes)

History of changes