Galleruca avicenniae Fabricius 1792
Authors/Creators
- 1. Biodiversity Inventory for Conservation npo (BINCO), Walmersumstraat 44, 3380 Glabbeek, Belgium. & Department of Biology, Ecosphere Research Group, University of Antwerp, Universiteitsplein 1, 2610 Wilrijk, Belgium.
- 2. Zoological Museum, University of Kiel, Hegewischstr. 3, D- 24105 Kiel, Germany.
- 3. Systematic Entomology Laboratory, USDA, ARS, c / o Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Washington, District of Columbia, USA.
Description
Galleruca avicenniae Fabricius, 1792
Fig. 11
avicenniae Fabricius, 1792: 18 (Americae meridionalis Avicenniis).
Material examined
Syntype
COUNTRY NOT INDICATED ON SPECIMEN • ♀; “ avicenniae / TYPE”; Kiel.
Status in Zimsen (1964)
P. 109 No.1692. “in Americae meridionalis Avicenniis Dr. Isert” Kiel 1 specimen.
Original description
“G. ferruginea elytris cyaneis. Habitat in Americae meridionalis Avicenniis Dr. Isert. Parva. Antennae nigrae basi ferrugineae. Caput & thorax laevia, ferruginea, nitida, immaculata. Elytra laevia, cyanea, nitida. Corpus & pedes ferruginea.”
Current status
avicenniae(Fabricius, 1792) incertae sedis Galerucini Latreille, 1802.Measurements
Syntype (Fig. 11): LB = 5.21 mm; WB = 2.82 mm.
Remarks
The syntype housed in Kiel corresponds with the original description. However, it is clearly not an Alticine and belongs to Galerucini based on the thin metafemora missing metafemoral spring. Why this species was included in Oedionychina is difficult to trace. Illiger (1807: 83) noted in a footnote that Galleruca avicenniae should be included in the genus Haltica Geoffroy, 1762 (now a synonym of Altica Geoffroy, 1762), after a comment from Count von Hoffmansegg while visiting the collection of Count von Hagens in Berlin. Heikertinger & Csiki (1940: 439) included this species as Oedionychus avicenniae, effectively including in Oedionychina. The rationale behind this decision is unknown, but potentially because the footnote in Illiger (1807) including Galleruca avicenniae was on the same page with three species obviously belonging in Oedionychina (current combinations: Ciguapanychis bicolor (Linnaeus, 1767), Kuschelina thoracica (Fabricius, 1775) and Kuschelina vians (Illiger, 1807)).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- Kiel
- Scientific name authorship
- Fabricius
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Coleoptera
- Family
- Chrysomelidae
- Genus
- Galleruca
- Species
- avicenniae
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- syntype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Galleruca avicenniae Fabricius, 1792 sec. Roie, Kuhlmann, Mack & Konstantinov, 2024
References
- Fabricius J. C. 1792. Entomologia systematica emendata et aucta, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species adjectis synonimis, locis, observationibus, descriptionibus. Tom I, Pars II. Proft, Copenhagen [Hafniae]. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 125869
- Zimsen E. 1964. The Type Material of I. C. Fabricius. Munksgaard, Copenhagen.
- Illiger K. 1807. Verzeichniss der Halticae in der Hellwig-Hoffmanseggischen Sammlung. Angehangt die Lamae, saltatoriae. Magazin fur Insektenkunde 6: 81 - 182. Available from https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 33080611 [accessed 10 Jan. 2024].
- Geoffroy E. L. 1762. Histoire abregee des insectes qui se trouvent aux environs de Paris, Vol. 1. Durand, Paris. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 65744
- Heikertinger F. & Csiki C. 1940. Chrysomelidae: Halticinae, II. Coleopterorum Catalogus Pars 169: 337 - 635.