GALERUCINAE, Latreille, 1802

Peck, Stewart B., Thomas, Michael C. & Robert H. Turnbow, Jr., 2014, The diversity and distributions of the beetles (Insecta: Coleoptera) of the Guadeloupe Archipelago (Grande-Terre, Basse-Terre, La Désirade, Marie-Galante, Les Saintes, and Petite-Terre), Lesser Antilles, Insecta Mundi 2014 (352), pp. 1-156 : 103-106

SUBFAMILY GALERUCINAE

TRIBE GALERUCINI

Metrogaleruca obscura (DeGeer) 1775: 354 ( Chrysomela ); Takizawa 2003: 50. = Schematiza livida (Olivier) 1791: 589 ( Galerucella ); Fleutiaux and Sallé 1890: 479 ( Galerucella ) of Guadeloupe; Jacoby 1897: 276; Leng and Mutchler 1914: 454; Blackwelder 1944-1957: 690. Distribution. Grenada, Guadeloupe; Lesser Antilles endemic.

TRIBE HYLASPINI

Acalymma innubum (Fabricius) 1775: 117 ( Crioceris ); Fleutiaux and Sallé 1890: 479 ( Diabrotica ); Blackwelder 1944-1957: 682 ( Diabrotica ); Ivie et al. 2008b: 256. Distribution. Cuba, Dominica, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Montserrat, Puerto Rico, St. Lucia, Virgin Islands. Mexico to Costa Rica, Colombia to French Guiana; widespread Antilles and Latin America . Notes. Probably found associated with Curcurbitaceae.

TRIBE LUPERINI

Cerotoma ruficornis (Oliver) 1791: 200 ( Crioceris ); Fleutiaux and Sallé 1890: 480; Jacoby 1897: 277; Blackwelder 1944-1957: 692; Miskimen and Bond 1970: 94 ( Andrector ); Takizawa 2003: 45; Schiller 2004: 19; Ivie et al. 2008b: 256. = Cerotoma denticornis Fabricius 1792: 24 ; Leng and Mutchler 1914: 454; Blackwelder 1944-1957: 692; Bennett and Alam 1985: 29. Distribution. Barbados, Bequia, Cuba, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Hispaniola, Jamaica, Montserrat, Puerto Rico, St. Croix, St. Vincent. USA (FL, TX), Mexico , Central America to Venezuela; widespread New World. Notes. A severe pest of beans and peas, and also found on cucurbits and peppers.

Diabrotica ochreata (Fabricius) 1792: 4 ( Crioceris ); Fleutiaux and Sallé 1890: 479; Blackwelder 1944- 1957: 683; Takizawa 2003: 46; Ivie et al. 2008b: 256. Distribution. Dominica, Guadeloupe, Montserrat; Lesser Antilles endemic.

Exora encaustica (Germar) 1824: 598 ( Galeruca ); Takizawa 2003: 49; Schiller 2004: 36; Ivie et al. 2008b: 256. = Exora encaustica guadeloupensis Bechyné 1958: 598 of Guadeloupe. = Exora detritum (Fabricius) in Leng and Mutchler 1917. Distribution. Guadeloupe, Montserrat. Mexico to Panama, Brazil; Lesser Antilles and Latin America .

Metrogaleruca obscura (DeGeer) 1775: 354 ( Chrysomela ); Takizawa 2003: 50. Distribution. Grenada, Guadeloupe. South America ; Lesser Antilles and Latin America .

Pyesia detrita (Fabricius) 1801: 450 ( Crioceris ); Fleutiaux and Sallé 1890: 479 ( Malacosoma ); Blackwelder 1944-1957: 689 ( Exora ); Takizawa 2003: 53. Distribution. Guadeloupe. Guatemala, Peru; Lesser Antilles and Latin America .

TRIBE ALTICINI

Acallepitrix constantina Bechyné 1956: 593 ; Takizawa 2003: 55. Distribution. Guadeloupe; single island endemic.

Acallepitrix mahulena Bechyné 1956: 592 ; Takizawa 2003: 55. Distribution. Guadeloupe; single island endemic.

Acallepitrix melanoxantha Bechyné 1956: 593 ; Takizawa 2003: 55. Distribution. Guadeloupe; single island endemic.

Aedmon adumbrata (Bechyné) 1956: 596 ( Hadropoda ); not in Takizawa 2003. Distribution. Guadeloupe; single island endemic.

Aedmon heikertingeri (Bechyné) 1956: 596 ( Hadropoda ); Takizawa 2003: 57. Distribution. Guadeloupe; single island endemic.

Aedmon orsodacnina (Bechyné) 1956: 596 ( Hadropoda ); Takizawa 2003: 58. Distribution. Guadeloupe; single island endemic.

Aphthona maculipennis Jacoby 1885: 365, 1897: 267 ; Blackwelder 1944-1957: 694; Bechyné 1956: 586; Takizawa 2003: 62. Distribution. Dominica, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Puerto Rico, St. Vincent. Mexico to Panama. widespread Antilles and Latin America .

Aphthona salaisi Bechyné 1956: 586 ; Takizawa 2003: 62. Distribution. Guadeloupe; single island endemic.

Apleuraltica curculionides Bechnye 1956: 596 ; Takizawa 2003: 62; Konstantinov and Konstantinova 2011: 63. Distribution. Guadeloupe; single island endemic. Genus endemic to Lesser Antilles.

Bonfilsus subpubenscens (sic) (Bechyné) 1956: 598 ( Aedmon ); Scherer 1967: 219; Takizawa 2003: 65. Distribution. Guadeloupe; single island endemic. Genus endemic to Lesser Antilles.

Chaetocnema conocarpicola Scherer 1967: 217 ; Takizawa 2003: 66; Schiller 2004: 16. Distribution. Guadeloupe; single island endemic. Notes. Found on Conocarpus erectus L.

Chaetocnema rexora Bechyné 1956: 594 ; Takizawa 2003: 67. Distribution. Guadeloupe; single island endemic.

Epitrix fasciata Blatchley 1918: 56 ; Blackwelder 1944-1957: 703; Takizawa 2003: 70; Ivie et al. 2008b: 256. = Crioceris parvula (Fabricius) 1801: 468 ; Jacoby 1897: 266; Bechyné 1956: 592; Turnbow and Thomas 2008: 24. Distribution. Bahamas, Barbados, Cuba, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Montserrat, Puerto Rico, St. Vincent. USA, Mexico to Panama; widespread Antilles and North and/or Central America . Notes. Feeding on egg-plant, tobacco, tomato, potato, bean and sweet potato. Notes. Ivie et al. 2008b: 256 list an undetermined species in this genus from Montserrat.

Epitrix fuscata (Jacquelin Du Val) 1856: 312 ( Crepidodera ); Jacoby 1897: 266; Blackwelder 1944-1957: 703; Bechyné 1956: 592; Takizawa 2003: 70. Distribution. Cuba, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Puerto Rico; widespread Antilles endemic. Notes. Serious pest of tobacco, tomato and egg-plant.

Exocerus heikertingeri Bechyné 1955: 145, 1956: 592 ; Takizawa 2003: 70. Distribution. Dominica, Guadeloupe (type locality); Lesser Antilles endemic.

Gioia antillarum Bechyné 1955: 79, 1956: 585 ; Savini and Furth 1999: 21; Takizawa 2003: 71; Schiller 2004: 44. Distribution. Guadeloupe; single island endemic. Notes. Host: Charianthus alpinus Schwartz (R. A. Howard) (Melastomataceae) ( Schiller 2004).

Gioia cyanella Bechyné 1955: 80, 1956: 585 , Takizawa 2003: 71. Distribution. Guadeloupe; single island endemic.

Gioia heikertingeri Bechyné 1955: 79, 1956: 585 ; Savini and Furth 1999: 27; Takizawa 2003: 71. Distribution. Guadeloupe; single island endemic.

Guadeloupena cadmum Bechyné 1956: 588 : Takizawa 2003: 71. Distribution. Guadeloupe; single island endemic. Genus endemic to Lesser Antilles.

Halticops aenea (Olivier) 1808: 690 ( Haltica ); Fleutiaux and Sallé 1890: 477; Blackwelder 1944-1957: 700; Bechyné 1956: 592 (Graphodera); not in Takizawa 2003. Distribution. Guadeloupe. Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana. Lesser Antilles and Latin America .

Heikertingerella blakeae Takizawa 2003: 72 ; replacement name for Heikertingerella guadeloupensis Blake 1960: 103 . Distribution. Dominica, Guadeloupe (type locality); Lesser Antilles endemic.

Heikertingerella guadeloupensis Bechyné 1956: 589 ; Takizawa 2003: 72. Distribution. Guadeloupe; single island endemic. Notes. Host: Besleria lutea L. ( Gesneriaceae ) ( Schiller 2004).

Heikertingerella krugi (Weise) 1885b: 163 ( Homophyla ); Fleutiaux and Sallé 1890: 478 (as Homophyla ? krugi ); Blackwelder 1944-1957: 705; not in Takizawa 2003: 72. Distribution. Guadeloupe, Puerto Rico; widespread Antilles endemic.

Heikertingerella retracta Bechyné 1955: 105 ; Takizawa 2003: 72. Distribution. Guadeloupe; single island endemic.

Heikertingerella rubra Bechyné 1956: 590 ; Takizawa 2003: 73. = Euplectroscelsis variabilis var. rubra Fleutiaux and Sallé 1890 . Distribution. Guadeloupe; single island endemic.

Heikertingerella unicolor (Jacoby) 1897: 270 ( Homophyla ); Blackwelder 1944-1957: 705; Bechyné 1956: 589; Takizawa 2003: 73. Distribution. Grenada, Guadeloupe, St. Vincent; Lesser Antilles endemic.

Heikertingerella variabilis (Jacoby) 1885: 392 ( Euplectroscelis ); Fleutiaux and Sallé 1890: 478; Takizawa 2003: 73. = Euplectroscelis variabilis variety rubra Leng and Mutchler 1914: 457 of Guadeloupe; Blackwelder 1944-1957: 705. Distribution. Guadeloupe. Mexico to Panama; Lesser Antilles and Latin America .

Homoschema azureipenne Bechyné 1956: 585 ; Takizawa 2003: 74. Distribution. Guadeloupe; single island endemic. Genus endemic to West Indies.

Homotyphus antillarum Bechyné 1956: 597 ; Takizawa 2003: 77. Distribution. Guadeloupe; single island endemic.

Leptophysa guadeloupensis Scherer 1967: 215 ; Takizawa 2003: 77; Schiller 2004: 11. Distribution. Guadeloupe; single island endemic. Notes. Host: Capparis cynophallophora L. ( Capparaceae ) ( Schiller 2004).

Longitarsus cornelius Bechyné 1955: 86 ; Takizawa 2003: 79. Distribution. Guadeloupe; single island endemic.

Longitarsus isochromus Bechyné 1956: 587 ; Takizawa 2003: 79. Distribution. Guadeloupe; single island endemic.

Longitarsus varicornis Suffrian 1968: 215 ; Bechyné 1956: 587; Takizawa 2003: 81. Distribution. Cuba, Guadeloupe, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands. North and South America (Trinidad, Venezuela); widespread New World.

Lupraea semifulva (Jacoby) 1885: 378 ( Palaeothona ); Fleutiaux and Sallé 1890: 478; Blackwelder 1944- 1957: 694; Takizawa 2003: 81. Distribution. Guadeloupe. Panama; Lesser Antilles and Latin America .

Lysathia occidentalis (Suffrian) 1868: 197 ( Haltica ); Fleutiaux and Sallé 1890: 477; Blackwelder 1944- 1957: 700 ( Altica ); Bechyné 1956: 592 ( Graptodera ); Blake 1964: 19; Miskimen and Bond 1970: 94; Bennett and Alam 1985: 29; Takizawa 2003: 81; Valentine and Ivie 2005: 280; Ivie et al. 2008b: 256 ( Altica ). Distribution. Barbados, Cuba, Dominica, Guadeloupe, Guana, Hispaniola, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, St. Croix, St. Lucia, Vieques, Virgin Islands; widespread Antilles endemic. Notes. The larvae and adults feed on leaves of Ludwigia spp. (Onagraceae) . The species Lysathia ludoviciana (Fall) 1910: 157 ( Altica ) is widespread from the USA, Mexico , and West Indies (Puerto Rico) and may be useful for biocontrol of aquatic weeds because it feeds on Myriophylum spp. ( Haloragaceae ) as well as genera of Onagraceae ( Habeck and Wilkerson, 1980) .

Megistops granulata Jacoby 1897: 275 ; Blackwelder 1944-1957: 717; Blake 1952: 2; Bechyné 1956: 598; Takizawa 2003: 82. Distribution. Grenada, Guadeloupe; Lesser Antilles endemic.

Monomacra corallina Fleutiaux and Sallé 1890: 477 (Lactica) ; Blackwelder 1944-1957: 701; Bechyné 1956: 595; Takizawa 2003: 83. Distribution. Guadeloupe; single island endemic.

Monomacra guadeloupensis Bechyné 1956: 594 ; Takizawa 2003: 84. Distribution. Guadeloupe; single island endemic.

Omophoita aequinoctialis (L.) 1758: 374 ( Chrysomela ); Fleutiaux and Sallé 1890: 478 ( Homophoeta ); Jacoby 1897: 271 ( Homophoeta ); Blake 1931: 77; Blackwelder 1944-1957: 707; Bechyné 1956: 595 ( Homophoeta ); Bennett and Alam 1985: 29; Takizawa 2003: 87; Schiller 2004: 17. = Omophoita abbreviata Fabricius 1798: 97 ; Fleutiaux and Sallé 1890: 478 ( Asphaera ) of Guadeloupe; Blackwelder 1944-1957: 7007; Bechyné 1956: 595. Distribution. Barbados, Dominica, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Jamaica,St. Thomas?, St. Vincent. Mexico to Panama, Colombia to Trinidad, Brazil and Bolivia; widespread Antilles and Latin America .

Omophoita cyanipennis Fabricius 1798: 97 ; Blake 1931: 77; Blackwelder 1944-1957: 707; Woodruff et al. 1998: 19. = Podagrica cyanipennis Weise 1885: 165 ; Fleutiaux and Sallé 1890: 476 of Guadeloupe. Distribution. Cuba, Dominica, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Hispaniola, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, St. Croix, St. Thomas, St. Vincent. Trinidad. USA (FL, TX); widespread Antilles and North and/or Central America . The variety octomaculata Crotch 1873: 59 is of Grenada, of Guadeloupe, of St. Vincent, and USA.

Phyllotrupes limbatus (Blake) 1953: 234 ( Oxygona ); Takizawa 2003: 89. Distribution. Guadeloupe. Costa Rica; Lesser Antilles and Latin America . Notes. According to A. Konstantinov (pers. comm., 23 Dec., 2011), Platiprosopus Chevrolat 1834: 87 appears to be an older name for this genus, and lists two unidentified species under this genus name for Guadeloupe ( Konstantinov and Konstantinova 2011: 65).

Phyllotrupes pallens (Fabricius) 1792: 25 ( Galeruca ); Fleutiaux and Sallé 1890: 477 ( Oxygona ); Blackwelder 1944-1957: 695; Takizawa 2003: 89. Distribution. Guadeloupe; single island endemic.

Pseudodisonycha guadeloupensis (Bechyné) 1956: 588 ( Monotalla ); Takizawa 2003: 89. Distribution. Guadeloupe; single island endemic. Genus endemic to West Indies.

Syphraea impala Bechyné 1956: 591 ; Takizawa 2003: 91. Distribution. Guadeloupe; single island endemic.

Systena lherminieri Bryant 1942: 792 ; Bechyné 1956: 591; Takizawa 2003: 92; Schiller 2004: 19. Distribution. Guadeloupe. Trinidad; Lesser Antilles and Latin America .