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Miraces Jacoby 1888
- 1. Monte L. Bean Life Science Museum, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah 84602, USA. & Kerala Agricultural University, Department of Agricultural Entomology, College of Agriculture, Vellayani, Trivandrum, Kerala, 695522, India.
- 2. Monte L. Bean Life Science Museum, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah 84602, USA.
Description
Genus Miraces Jacoby, 1888
Miraces Jacoby, 1888: 611
(type species Miraces aeneipennis Jacoby, 1888, by monotypy).
Halticidea Horn, 1893: 61 (type species Halticidea delata Horn, 1893, by subsequent designation of Wilcox 1965).
Remarks
This genus contains five described species. They are distributed from the southern United States through Guatemala, and in West Indies. Other species, apparently undescribed, occur throughout much of Latin America, including South America. See Fig. 18 for a habitus illustration. See Wilcox (1965) for a key to the species occurring in the United States.
Notes
Published as part of Viswajyothi, Keezhpattillam & Clark, Shawn M., 2022, New World genera of Galerucinae Latreille, 1802 (tribes Galerucini Latreille, 1802, Metacyclini Chapuis, 1875, and Luperini Gistel, 1848): an annotated list and identification key (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae), pp. 1-102 in European Journal of Taxonomy 842 on page 6, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2022.842.1945, http://zenodo.org/record/7222499
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Chrysomelidae
- Genus
- Miraces
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Coleoptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Jacoby
- Taxon rank
- genus
- Taxonomic concept label
- Miraces Jacoby, 1888 sec. Viswajyothi & Clark, 2022
References
- Jacoby M. 1888. Biologia Centrali-Americana, Insecta, Coleoptera, Galerucidae. Volume 6, Part 1: 585 - 625. London.
- Horn G. H. 1893. The Galerucini of boreal America. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 20: 57 - 136.
- Wilcox J. A. 1965. A synopsis of the North American Galerucinae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae). New York State Museum and Science Service Bulletin 400: 1 - 226.