Glyptoscelis

Glyptoscelis is a genus of leaf beetles in the subfamily Eumolpinae. There are 38 described species in Glyptoscelis, known from North, Central and South America.[1][2][3][4][5]

Glyptoscelis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Family:	Chrysomelidae
Subfamily:	Eumolpinae
Tribe:	Eumolpini
Genus:	Glyptoscelis Chevrolat in Dejean, 1836
Type species
Eumolpus hirtus (= Cryptocephalus pubescens Fabricius, 1777) Olivier, 1808

According to BugGuide and ITIS, the genus is now placed in the tribe Eumolpini instead of Adoxini.[4][1]

Species

These species belong to the genus Glyptoscelis:

• Glyptoscelis aeneipennis Baly, 1865[6]
• Glyptoscelis albicans Baly, 1865 ^{i c g b}[6]
• Glyptoscelis albida LeConte, 1859 ^{i c g b}
• Glyptoscelis alternata Crotch, 1873 ^{i c g b}[7]
• Glyptoscelis aridis Van Dyke, 1938 ^{i c g}
• Glyptoscelis artemisiae Blake, 1967 ^{i c g}[8]
• Glyptoscelis barbata (Say, 1826) ^{i c g}
• Glyptoscelis cahitae Blake, 1967[8]
• Glyptoscelis chontalensis Jacoby, 1882[9]
• Glyptoscelis coloradoensis Blake, 1967 ^{i c g}[8]
• Glyptoscelis cryptica (Say, 1824) ^{i c g b}
• Glyptoscelis cylindrica Blake, 1967 ^{i c g}[8]
• Glyptoscelis diabola Krauss, 1937 ^{i c g}[10]
• Glyptoscelis dohrni Jacoby, 1900[11]
• Glyptoscelis fascicularis Baly, 1865[6]
• Glyptoscelis gayi Lefèvre, 1891[12]
• Glyptoscelis gigas Jacoby, 1897[13]
• Glyptoscelis guatemalensis Blake, 1967[8]
• Glyptoscelis idahoensis Blake, 1967 ^{i c g}[8]
• Glyptoscelis illustris Crotch, 1873 ^{i c g b}[7]
• Glyptoscelis juniperi Blake, 1967 ^{i c g b}[8]
• Glyptoscelis longior LeConte, 1878 ^{i c g}
• Glyptoscelis mexicana Jacoby, 1882[9]
• Glyptoscelis monrosi Blake, 1952
• Glyptoscelis paraguayensis Jacoby, 1897[13]
• Glyptoscelis parvula Blaisdell, 1921 ^{i c g}
• Glyptoscelis paula Blake, 1967 ^{i c g}[8]
• Glyptoscelis peperi Blake, 1967 ^{i c g}[8]
• Glyptoscelis pinnigera Blake, 1952
• Glyptoscelis prosopis Schaeffer, 1905 ^{i c g b}
• Glyptoscelis pubescens (Fabricius, 1777) ^{i c g b} (hairy leaf beetle)
• Glyptoscelis pulvinosus (Blanchard, 1851)[14]
• Glyptoscelis septentrionalis Blake, 1967 ^{i c g}[8]
• Glyptoscelis sequoiae Blaisdell, 1921 ^{i c g}
• Glyptoscelis sonorensis Blake, 1967[8]
• Glyptoscelis squamulata Crotch, 1873 ^{i c g b}[7] (grape bud beetle)
• Glyptoscelis vandykei Krauss, 1937 ^{i c g}[10]
• Glyptoscelis yosemitae Krauss, 1937 ^{i c g}[10]

Data sources: i = ITIS,[1] c = Catalogue of Life,[2] g = GBIF,[3] b = Bugguide.net[4]

Three additional species have been described from the West Indies. According to Doris Holmes Blake, in her 1967 review of the genus, they are wrongly placed in it:[15][8]

• Glyptoscelis brevicornis (Olivier, 1808)
• Glyptoscelis fusca (Drapiez, 1820)
• Glyptoscelis hobsoni (Curtis, 1840)

References

1. "Glyptoscelis Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-04-21.
2. "Browse Glyptoscelis". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2018-04-21.
3. "Glyptoscelis". GBIF. Retrieved 2018-04-21.
4. "Glyptoscelis Genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-04-21.
5. Elgueta, M.; Daccordi, M.; Zoia, S. (2017). "Lista de las especies de Spilopyrinae y Eumolpinae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) de Chile" (PDF). Boletín del Museo Nacional de Historia Natural, Chile (in Spanish). 66: 67–84.
6. Baly, J. S. (1864). "Descriptions of new Genera and Species of Phytophaga". Transactions of the Entomological Society of London. 12 (4): 333–357. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2311.1864.tb00109.x.
7. Crotch, G. R. (1873). "Materials for the Study of the Phytophaga of the United States". Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 25 (1): 19–83. JSTOR 4624297.
8. Blake, D. H. (1967). "Revision of the Beetles of Genus Glyptoscelis (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae)" (PDF). Proceedings of the United States National Museum. 123 (3604): 1–53. doi:10.5479/si.00963801.123-3604.1.
9. Jacoby, M. (1881). "Eumolpidae". Insecta. Coleoptera. Biologia Centrali-Americana. 6. pp. 105–187.
10. Krauss, N. L. H. (1937). "A Study of the Genus Glyptoscelis Le Conte in America North of Mexico (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae)". University of California Publications in Entomology. 7 (2): 21–32.
11. Jacoby, M. (1900). "Descriptions of New Species and a New Genus of South American Eumolpidæ, with Remarks on some of the Genera". Transactions of the Entomological Society of London. 48 (4): 453–510. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2311.1900.tb02719.x.
12. Lefèvre, E. (1891). "Descriptions d'espèces nouvelles de Clytrides et d'Eumolpides". Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique. 35: CCXLVIII–CCLXXIX.
13. Jacoby, M. (1897). "Descriptions of some new species of Clythridae and Eumolpidae". The Entomologist. 30 (413): 261–264.
14. Jerez, V.; Berti, N. (1987). "Glyptoscelis pulvinosus (Blanchard, 1851), nueva combinacion y redescripcion de la especie (Chrysomelidae, Eumolpinae)". Boletin de la Sociedad de Biología de Concepción. 58: 89–93.
15. Bechyné, J. (1953). "Katalog der neotropischen Eumolpiden (Col. Phytoph. Chrysomeloidea)". Entomologische Arbeiten aus dem Museum G. Frey (in German). 4: 26–303.

Further reading

• Riley, Edward G.; Clark, Shawn M.; Seeno, Terry N. (2003). Catalog of the leaf beetles of America north of Mexico (Coleoptera: Megalopodidae, Orsodacnidae and Chrysomelidae, excluding Bruchinae). Special Publication No. 1. The Coleopterists' Society. ISBN 978-0-9726087-1-8.
• Lobl, I.; Smetana, A., eds. (2013). Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera, Volume 6: Chrysomeloidea. Apollo Books. ISBN 978-90-04-26091-7.

External links

• Media related to Glyptoscelis at Wikimedia Commons