Amphimela mauliki Prathapan

Prathapan, Kaniyarikkal D., 2017, Identity of the citrus leaf mining flea beetle in northeast India and nomenclatural changes in Amphimela (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae: Alticini), Florida Entomologist 100 (2), pp. 276-276 : 276-

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.1653/024.100.0223
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/191087B9-FFF8-B915-FCE6-82C0641CFCE5
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Amphimela mauliki Prathapan
status

Treatment

Amphimela mauliki Prathapan , new name

Throscoryssa citri Maulik (1928: 160) , Clausen (1931: 1–13), Hoffmann (1935: 509), Chen (1936b: 383, 657), Gressitt & Kimoto (1963: 788), Scherer (1969: 8, 17, 227), Doberl (2010: 561).

ETYMOLOGY

Named afer Samarendra Maulik, who originally described this species as T. citri .

COMMENTS

Maulik (1928) erected the monotypic genus Throscoryssa for a sin- gle species citri from Assam. Throscoryssa was synonymized with Clitea ( Konstantinov & Prathapan 2008) , which is a synonym of Amphimela Chapuis ( Medvedev 2001) . Bryant (1922) described Cercyonia citri from the Gold Coast in Africa as a serious pest of citrus plants. Scherer (1961) synonymized Cercyonia with Amphimela . As Amphimela citri ( Maulik 1928) is a junior secondary homonym of Amphimela citri ( Bryant 1922) , a replacement name is proposed here as per article 60.3 of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature ( International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 1999).