''Aulacothorax'' is a genus of
flea beetles in the family
Chrysomelidae
The insects of the beetle family Chrysomelidae are commonly known as leaf beetles, and include over 37,000 (and probably at least 50,000) species in more than 2,500 genera, making up one of the largest and most commonly encountered of all beetle ...
. There are at least 20 described species in ''Aulacothorax'', found in the
Palearctic
The Palearctic or Palaearctic is the largest of the eight biogeographic realms of the Earth. It stretches across all of Eurasia north of the foothills of the Himalayas, and North Africa.
The realm consists of several bioregions: the Euro-Sibe ...
, North America,
Indomalaya, and
Australasia.
The genus was originally created in 1858 for a single species described from
Tahiti, ''Aulacothorax exilis'', which was placed in
Scydmaenidae
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(now considered a subfamily of
Staphylinidae
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). Recently, the
holotype of this species was rediscovered in the collections of the
Swedish Museum of Natural History
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The ...
, and it was found to belong to the flea beetle genus ''Orthaltica''. ''Aulacothorax'' is the earliest available name for the genus, so the genus ''Orthaltica'' was formally placed in synonymy with it in 2017.
Species
* ''
Aulacothorax arabicus''
(Medvedev, 1997)
* ''
Aulacothorax australis''
(Konstantinov, 1995)
* ''
Aulacothorax bakeri''
(Konstantinov, 1995)
* ''
Aulacothorax borneoensis
''Aulacothorax'' is a genus of flea beetles in the family Chrysomelidae. There are at least 20 described species in ''Aulacothorax'', found in the Palearctic, North America, Indomalaya, and Australasia.
The genus was originally created in 185 ...
''
(Konstantinov, 1995)
* ''
Aulacothorax chibi''
(Takizawa, 2017)
* ''
Aulacothorax coomani''
(Laboissiere, 1933)
* ''
Aulacothorax copalinus''
(Fabricius, 1801)
* ''
Aulacothorax exilis''
Boheman, 1858
* ''
Aulacothorax kirejtshuki''
(Konstantinov, 1995)
* ''
Aulacothorax konstantinovi''
(Takizawa, 2017)
* ''
Aulacothorax melinus''
(Horn, 1889) (poison ivy leaf beetle)
* ''
Aulacothorax mindanaoensis''
(Konstantinov, 1995)
* ''
Aulacothorax minutiusculus''
(Csiki, 1939)
* ''
Aulacothorax okinawanus''
(Gressitt and Kimoto, 1966)
* ''
Aulacothorax orientalis''
(Konstantinov, 1995)
* ''
Aulacothorax pahangi''
(Konstantinov, 1995)
* ''
Aulacothorax parkeri''
(B. White, 1942)
* ''
Aulacothorax rangoonensis''
(Konstantinov, 1995)
* ''
Aulacothorax rata
''Aulacothorax'' is a genus of flea beetles in the family Chrysomelidae. There are at least 20 described species in ''Aulacothorax'', found in the Palearctic, North America, Indomalaya, and Australasia.
The genus was originally created in 185 ...
''
(Takizawa, 2017)
* ''
Aulacothorax recticollis''
(J. L. LeConte, 1861)
* ''
Aulacothorax sabahcola
''Aulacothorax'' is a genus of flea beetles in the family Chrysomelidae. There are at least 20 described species in ''Aulacothorax'', found in the Palearctic, North America, Indomalaya, and Australasia.
The genus was originally created in 185 ...
''
(Takizawa, 2017)
* ''
Aulacothorax schereri''
(Takizawa, 2017)
* ''
Aulacothorax syzygium''
(Prathapan & Konstantinov, 2013)
* ''
Aulacothorax terminalia''
(Prathapan & Konstantinov, 2013)
* ''
Aulacothorax tuberculatus''
(Takizawa, 2017)
* ''
Aulacothorax visayanensis''
(Konstantinov, 1995)
References
Alticini
Chrysomelidae genera
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Taxa named by Carl Henrik Boheman
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