Chalcosicya

Chalcosicya is a genus of leaf beetles in the subfamily Eumolpinae. It is mainly known from the West Indies, though one species is found in southern Mexico. It has recently been thought to be a sister genus to the Mediterranean Colaspidea, with Colaspina as a sister genus to the former two combined.[2]

Chalcosicya
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Chrysomelidae
Subfamily: Eumolpinae
Tribe: Bromiini
Genus: Chalcosicya
Blake, 1930[1]
Type species
Chalcosicya maestrensis
Blake, 1930

The genus was first erected by the American entomologist Doris Holmes Blake in 1930 for a single new species from Cuba. In subsequent publications by Blake, she described more than 20 additional species of the genus from various islands in the West Indies. In 2012, a species of Chalcosicya was described from southern Mexico by R. Wills Flowers, expanding the range of the genus to the mainland of North America.[2]

Beetles in the genus are small in size (less than 4 mm) and have a robust, ovate body. They have a black, dark bronze, green or blue color, and are covered in scale-like hairs or setae.[2]

Species

Synonyms:

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References
  1. Blake, D. H. (1930). "Synonymies of Antillean Chrysomelidae, with descriptions of new species". Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomological Society. 25: 209–223.
  2. Flowers, R. Wills (2012). "Chalcosicya maya n. sp, a new Mexican species (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Eumolpinae) and its implications for morphology and biogeography". Insecta Mundi (209): 1–9.
  3. Blake, D. H. (1951). "A revision of the beetles of the genus Chalcosicya Blake (Chrysomelidae) from the West Indies". Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. 106 (7): 287–317.
  4. Blake, D. H. (1958). "Some New West Indian Eumolpid Beetles" (PDF). Psyche. 65 (4): 91–98. doi:10.1155/1958/64819.
  5. Blake, D. H. (1965). "Twelve new species of chrysomelid beetles from the West Indies (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae)" (PDF). American Museum Novitates. 2217: 1–13. hdl:2246/3315.
  6. Blake, D. H. (1938). "Eight new species of West Indian Chrysomelidae". Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington. 40 (2): 44–52.
  7. Blake, D. H. (1966). "Ten new chrysomelid beetles form the West Indies and Key West". Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington. 68 (3): 213–222.
  8. Blake, D. H. (1971). "Fifteen new West Indian chrysomelid beetles". Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington. 73 (3): 269–282.


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