Goniopleura Explained

Goniopleura is a genus of leaf beetles in the subfamily Eumolpinae. It is found in Southeast Asia.^{[1] [2]} It is sometimes treated as a subgenus of Aulexis.^[3]

Species

The genus contains ten species:

• Goniopleura auricoma Westwood, 1832
  • Goniopleura auricoma auricoma Westwood, 1832 – Peninsular Malaysia (Penang)
  • Goniopleura auricoma basalis Jacoby, 1882^[4] – Sumatra
  • Goniopleura auricoma bicoloripes Gahan, 1895^[5] – Java
  • Goniopleura auricoma borneensis Medvedev, 1998^[6] – Borneo (Sarawak)
  • Goniopleura auricoma niasica Medvedev, 1998^[6] – Nias
• Goniopleura chapuisi Thomson, 1875 – Borneo (Sabah)
• Goniopleura fulva Medvedev & Romantsov, 2014^[7] – Borneo (Sabah)
• Goniopleura kinabaluensis Takizawa, 2017^[8] – Borneo (Sabah)
• Goniopleura moseri Weise, 1922 – Vietnam
• Goniopleura nigriventris Medvedev, 1998^[6] – Sumatra
• Goniopleura shuteae Medvedev, 2011^[9]
• Goniopleura suturalis Pic, 1928 – Vietnam
• Goniopleura tonkinea Pic, 1928 – Laos, Vietnam
• Goniopleura viridipennis Clark, 1865^[10]
  • Goniopleura viridipennis nigripes Medvedev, 1998^[6] – Borneo (Sabah)
  • Goniopleura viridipennis sumatrana Medvedev, 1998^[6] – Sumatra
  • Goniopleura viridipennis viridipennis Clark, 1865 – Peninsular Malaysia (Penang, Malacca)

Notes and References

1. Book: Mohamedsaid, M. S.. 2004. Catalogue of the Malaysian Chrysomelidae (Insecta: Coleoptera). 1–239. Sofia. Pensoft Publishers. Pensoft Series Faunistica. 36. 9546422010. 1312-0174.
2. Kimoto. S.. Gressitt. J. L.. 1982. Chrysomelidae (Coleoptera) of Thailand, Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam. III. Eumolpinae. Esakia. 18. 1–141. 10.5109/2421 . 2324/2421. 83265328 .
3. Book: Eroshkina, G. A.. 1988. Reviziya roda Aulexis Baly (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Eumolpinae) fauni Vetnama. ru:Ревизия рода Aulexis Baly (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Eumolpinae) фауны Вьетнама. 57–69. Medvedev. L. N.. Striganova. B. R.. Fauna i ekologiya nasekomikh Vetnama. ru:Фауна и экология насекомых Вьетнама. Nauka. Moscow. 9785020052635. Russian.
4. Jacoby. M.. 1882. Descriptions of new genera and species of Phytophagous Coleoptera. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 1882. 50–58.
5. Gahan. C. J.. 1895. Note on the genus Goniopleura, Westwood, with the description of a new species. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 6. 15. 89. 454–456. 10.1080/00222939508677912.
6. L.N.. Medvedev. 1998. New Chrysomelidae (Coleoptera) from Southeast Asia in the Hungarian Natural History Museum. Annales Historico-Naturales Musei Nationalis Hungarici. 90. 163–174.
7. L.. Medvedev. P.. Romantsov. 2014. New and poorly known Chrysomelidae (Coleoptera) from Borneo. Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde. A, Neue Serie. 7. 235–251. 2018-08-29. 2017-04-06. https://web.archive.org/web/20170406192122/http://www.naturkundemuseum-bw.de/sites/default/files/publikationen/serie-a/ans07-12.pdf. dead.
8. Takizawa. H.. 2017. Leaf beetles of Mt. Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae). Japanese Journal of Systematic Entomology. 23. 2. 195–233.
9. Medvedev. L. N.. 2011. To the knowledge of the genus Goniopleura Westwood, 1832 (Chrysomelidae, Eumolpinae). Entomologische Zeitschrift. 121. 15–18.
10. Clark. H.. 1865. Descriptions of species of Phytophaga received from Pulo Penang or its neighbourhood. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 3. 15. 86. 139–148. 10.1080/00222936508681774.