Colaspidea Confinis

''Colaspidea'' is a genus of leaf beetles in the subfamily Eumolpinae. It is known from North America (California and the southwestern United States) and the Mediterranean Basin, Mediterranean. It has recently been suggested that the Mediterranean species of ''Colaspidea'' are a sister genus to ''Chalcosicya'', and that ''Colaspina'' forms a sister genus to the former two combined. It has also been suggested that the North American species of ''Colaspidea'' may represent a separate genus.

The North American species of ''Colaspidea'' have wings, while the Mediterranean species are wingless insect, wingless.

Species

There are 19 described species in the genus ''Colaspidea'':

Mediterranean species:
* ''Colaspidea algarvensis'' Zoia, 2014
* ''Colaspidea confinis'' Zoia, 2014
* ''Colaspidea dogueti'' Zoia, 2014
* ''Colaspidea globosa'' (Heinrich Carl Küster, Küster, 1848) ^g
* ''Colaspidea graeca'' Zoia, 2014
* ''Colaspidea grossa'' Léon Fairmaire, Fairmaire, 1866 ^g
* ''Colaspidea incerta'' Zoia, 2014
* ''Colaspidea inflata'' Édouard Lefèvre, Lefèvre, 1876
* ''Colaspidea juengeri'' Doguet, 1988 (formerly a subspecies of ''C. metallica'')
* ''Colaspidea maghrebina'' Zoia, 2014
* ''Colaspidea maura'' Zoia, 2014
* ''Colaspidea metallica'' (Pietro Rossi (scientist), Rossi, 1790) ^g
* ''Colaspidea oblonga'' (Émile Blanchard, Blanchard, 1845) ^g (synonyms: ''C. nitida'' Hippolyte Lucas, H. Lucas, 1846; ''C. oblonga'' (Léon Fairmaire, Fairmaire, 1862); ''C. oblonga albanica'' Schatzmayr, 1923)
* ''Colaspidea ovulum'' Léon Fairmaire, Fairmaire, 1866
* ''Colaspidea pallidipes'' Zoia, 2014
* ''Colaspidea proxima'' (Léon Fairmaire, Fairmaire, 1862) ^g

North American species:
* ''Colaspidea pallipes'' Henry Clinton Fall, Fall, 1933 ^{i c g}
* ''Colaspidea pomonae'' Henry Clinton Fall, Fall, 1933 ^{i c g}
* ''Colaspidea smaragdula'' (John Lawrence LeConte, LeConte, 1857) ^{i c g b}

Data sources: i = ITIS, c = Catalogue of Life, g = GBIF, b = BugGuide

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Eumolpinae
Chrysomelidae genera
Articles created by Qbugbot
Beetles of North America
Beetles of Europe
Taxa named by François-Louis Laporte, comte de Castelnau

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