Theopea

Short description: Genus of leaf beetles

Theopea

Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Arthropoda
Class:  | Insecta
Order:  | Coleoptera
Infraorder:  | Cucujiformia
Family:  | Chrysomelidae
Subfamily:  | Galerucinae
Tribe:  | Luperini
Subtribe:  | Luperina
Genus:  | Theopea
Baly, 1864
Type species
Crioceris impressa

Fabricius, 1801

Theopea is a genus of skeletonizing leaf beetles in the family Chrysomelidae. There are more than 25 described species in Theopea. They are found in Indomalaya and the Palearctic.[1][2] It is closely related to the genera Pseudotheopea and Borneotheopea.

## Species

These 28 species belong to the genus Theopea, divided into three species groups (with nine others considered as species incertae sedis):[3][4][5]

Theopea impressa group:

* Theopea chungi Lee & Bezdĕk, 2019
* Theopea impressa (Fabricius, 1801)
* Theopea longicollis (Jacoby, 1896)
* Theopea louwerensi Jolivet, 1951
* Theopea lunduensis Mohamedsaid, 1998

Theopea flavipalpis group:

* Theopea flavipalpis Laboissiere, 1940
* Theopea guoi Lee & Bezdĕk, 2019
* Theopea lui Lee & Bezdĕk, 2019
* Theopea sabahensis Lee & Bezdĕk, 2019

Theopea pulchella group:

* Theopea bicolor Kimoto, 1989
* Theopea bicoloroides Lee & Bezděk, 2020
* Theopea elegantula Baly, 1864
* Theopea fairmairei Duvivier, 1885
* Theopea houjayi Lee & Bezdĕk, 2019
* Theopea kedenburgi Weise, 1922
* Theopea mouhoti Baly, 1864
* Theopea pulchella Baly, 1864
* Theopea tsoui Lee & Bezdĕk, 2019
* Theopea yuae Lee & Bezdĕk, 2019

Species incertae sedis:

* Theopea clypeata Jacoby, 1896
* Theopea dohrni (Jacoby, 1889)
* Theopea incostata (Allard, 1889)
* Theopea intermedia (Jacoby, 1889)
* Theopea modiglianii Jacoby, 1896
* Theopea obliterata Jacoby, 1884
* Theopea variabilis (Jacoby, 1887)
* Theopea viridipennis (Jacoby, 1899)
* Theopea weberi (Weise, 1913)

## References

1. ↑ "Theopea". https://www.gbif.org/species/4575196.
2. ↑ Nie, R-E; Bezděk, J.; Yang, X-K (2017). "How many genera and species of Galerucinae s. str. do we know? Updated statistics (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae). In: Chaboo CS, Schmitt M (Eds) Research on Chrysomelidae". ZooKeys (720): 91–102. doi:10.3897/zookeys.720.13517. PMID 29290727.
3. ↑ Lee, Chi-Feng; Bezděk, Jan (2018). "Revision of the genus Theopea Baly (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae) of East Asia: species lacking modified clypeus in males and the T. sauteri species group". Zootaxa 4508 (3): 334–376. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4508.3.2. PMID 30485982. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/328660692.
4. ↑ Lee, Chi-Feng; Bezděk, Jan (2019). "Revision of the genus Theopea Baly (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae) in Sundaland and the Philippines: Redefinition of the genus". Zootaxa 4683 (4): 451–507. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4683.4.1. PMID 31715907. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/336372601.
5. ↑ Lee, Chi-Feng; Bezděk, Jan (2020). "Revision of the Theopea genus group (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Galerucinae), part III: Descriptions of two new genera and nine new species". ZooKeys (912): 65–124. doi:10.3897/zookeys.912.47719. PMID 32123500. PMC 7040049. https://zookeys.pensoft.net/article/47719/.

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