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Eupalea Mulsant 1850

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Eupalea Mulsant, 1850

Eupalea Mulsant, 1850: 889; Crotch, 1874: 290; Gorham, 1895: 209; Korschefsky, 1931: 104; Blackwelder, 1945: 443; Gordon, 1987: 35, 36; Almeida & Gordon, 1990: 314.

Type species: Eupalea formosa Mulsant, 1850; by subsequent designation of Crotch (1874).

Distribution by States in the Northeast Region of Brazil. Ceará; Rio Grande do Norte; Bahia.

Species from the Northeast Region of Brazil. Eupalea reinhardtii Crotch, 1874.

Comments. This genus is distributed from Mexico to the Southern Region of Brazil (Blackwelder 1945; Almeida & Gordon 1990). Five of the seventeen species of Eupalea occur in Brazil, with E. reinhardtii being the only species recorded for NE Brazil (Almeida & Gordon 1990; González 2015; Szawaryn & Czerwiński 2022).

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Published as part of Duarte-De-Mélo, Jefferson, Almeida, Lúcia Massutti De & Lima, Iracilda Maria De Moura, 2025, A diversity panorama of Coccinellidae (Coleoptera) from Northeastern Brazil, pp. 451-495 in Zootaxa 5728 (3) on page 462, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5728.3.2, http://zenodo.org/record/17894971

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http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03C187945477FF95FF2AFE59F276C504

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Journal article: 10.11646/zootaxa.5728.3.2 (DOI)
Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/17894971 (URL)
Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FFF8FFEC547CFF9EFFBDFFEFF70CC62D (URL)
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https://biodiversitypmc.sibils.org/collections/plazi/03C187945477FF95FF2AFE59F276C504 (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/314408380 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/314278/taxon/03C187945477FF95FF2AFE59F276C504.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Mulsant
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Coleoptera
Family
Coccinellidae
Genus
Eupalea
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Eupalea Mulsant, 1850 sec. Duarte-De-Mélo, Almeida & Lima, 2025

References

  • Mulsant, E. (1850) Species des Coleopteres trimeres securipalpes. Annales des Sciences Physiques et Naturelles, d'Agriculture et d'Industrie, Lyon, 2 (2), 1-1104. https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.8953
  • Crotch, G. R. (1874) A revision of the coleopterous family Coccinellidae. E. W. Janson, London, xv + 311 pp. https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.8975
  • Korschefsky, R. (1931) Pars 118. Coccinellidae. I. In: Junk, W. & Schenkling, S. (Eds.), Coleopterorum Catalogus. W. Junk, Berlin, pp. 1-225.
  • Blackwelder, R. E. (1945) Checklist of the coleopterous insects of Mexico, Central America, the West Indies, and South America. Part 3. Bulletin of the United States National Museum, 185, i - iv + 343-550. https://doi.org/10.5479/si.03629236.185.3
  • Gordon, R. D. (1987) A catalogue of the Crotch collection of Coccinellidae (Coleoptera). Occasional Papers on Systematic Entomology, 3, 1-46.
  • Almeida, L. M. & Gordon, R. D. (1990) The Coccinellidae (Coleoptera) of South America. Part II. A revision of the genus Eupalea Mulsant, 1850 (Coleoptera, Coccinellidae). Revista Brasileira de Entomologia, 34 (2), 313-330.
  • Gonzalez, G. (2015) Especies nuevas y nuevos registros de coccinelidos (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) de Ecuador. Boletin de la Sociedad Entomologica Aragonesa, 57, 143-163.
  • Szawaryn, K. & Czerwinski, T. (2022) New Coccinellidae (Coleoptera, Coccinelloidea) from Napo Province in Ecuador. European Journal of Taxonomy, 845, 30-65. https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2022.845.1953