Themesia Lacordaire, 1848

Agrain, Federico A., Chamorro, Maria Lourdes, Cabrera, Nora, Sassi, Davide & Roig-Junent, Sergio, 2017, A comprehensive guide to the Argentinian case-bearer beetle fauna (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Camptosomata), ZooKeys 677, pp. 11-88 : 39

Themesia Lacordaire, 1848 Fig. 20

Themesia Lacordaire 1848: 517-518; Chapuis 1874: 138; Jacoby and Clavareau 1906: 62; Clavareau 1913: 77; Guérin 1943: 30; Monrós 1953a: 130; Moldenke 1970: 12.

Type species.

Themesia auricapilla (Germar, 1824), designated by Monrós 1953a: 130.

Diagnosis.

This genus is close to Coscinoptera , from which it can be separated by its unicolored metallic green/blue coloration (except in T. costaricensis and T. lacordairei , not present in Argentina) and by its distinct body shape. Eyes large, non-emarginate and distinctly protruding; elytra glabrous without distinct punctation pattern, epipleurae reduced; pygidium flat; antennomere IV much smaller than V, not clavate; ventrites densely pubescent.

Distribution.

From Costa Rica to Colombia, and in Brazil, Paraguay, and Argentina.

Argentinian species checklist.

1. Themesia auricapilla grandis Baly, 1877a (CTS, MNS, TUC).

Themesia grandis Baly, 1877a.