GALERUCINAE, Latreille, 1802

Peck, Stewart B., 2010, The beetles of the island of St. Vincent, Lesser Antilles (Insecta: Coleoptera); diversity and distributions, Insecta Mundi 2010 (144), pp. 1-77 : 56-58

SUBFAMILY GALERUCINAE

TRIBE HYLASPINI

Acalymma bivittatum (Fabricius) 1801: 455 ( Crioceris ); Jacoby 1897: 276 ( Diabrotica ); Blackwelder 1944- 1957: 679; Miskimen and Bond 1970: 95; Takizawa 2003: 45. Distribution. Cuba, Grenada, Hispaniola, Puerto Rico, St. Croix, St. Vincent. French Guiana; Lesser Antilles and Latin America .

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; Ivie et al. 2008b: 256. = C. 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 sinuata (Olivier) 1789: 106 ( Altica ); Takizawa 2003: 46. = Diabrotica melanocephala Fabricius 1798: 95 ; Jacoby 1897: 276; Blackwelder 1944-1957: 683. = Crioceris capitata Fabricius 1801: 452 , replacement name. Distribution. Barbados, Grenada, Montserrat (record possibly confused with Acalymma innubum , see Ivie et al. 2008b: 256), St. Vincent. Central and South America ; Lesser Antilles and Latin America .

TRIBE ALTICINI

Alagoasa punctipennis (Blake) 1971: 277 ( Oedionychus ); Takizawa 2003: 60. Distribution. St. Vincent; single island endemic.

Altica satellitia (Jacoby) 1891: 267 ( Haltica ); Blackwelder 1944-1957: 700; Takizawa 2003: 60. Distribution. Barbados, Grenada, St. Vincent. Mexico, Guatemala; Lesser Antilles and Latin America .

Aphthona grenadensis Jacoby 1897: 267 ; Blackwelder 1944-1957: 694; Takizawa 2003: 61. Distribution. Grenada, St. Vincent; Lesser Antilles endemic.

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

[ Chaetocnema minuta Melsheimer 1847: 167 ; Jacoby 1897: 269; Blackwelder 1944-1957: 706; Takizawa 2003: 66. Distribution. Southern USA. Notes. The records in Leng and Mutchler (1914: 457) and Blackwelder (1944-1957: 706) of Grenada and of St. Vincent are in error according to White (1996: 87).]

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; Turnbow and Thomas 2008: 24. Distribution. Bahamas, Barbados, Cuba, Grenada, Montserrat, Puerto Rico, St. Vincent. USA, Mexico to Panama; widespread Antilles and North and/or Central America . Notes. Feeding on eggplant, tobacco, tomato, potato, bean and sweet potato.

Exocerus suffriani (Jacoby) 1897: 264 ( Pseudoepitrix ); Blackwelder 1944-1957: 700; Takizawa 2003: 70. Distribution. St. Vincent; single island endemic.

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

Hypolampsus annulicornis Jacoby 1897: 274 ; Blackwelder 1944-1957: 715 ( Hadropoda ); Takizawa 2003; 77. Distribution. Grenada, St. Vincent; Lesser Antilles endemic.

Longitarsus horni Jacoby 1897: 268 ; Blackwelder 1944-1957: 694; Takizawa 2003: 79. Distribution. Grenada, St. Vincent; Lesser Antilles endemic.

Monomacra apicipes (Jacoby) 1902: 178 ( Lactica ); Blackwelder 1944-1957: 701; Takizawa 2003: 83. Distribution. Grenada (type locality), St. Vincent; Lesser Antilles endemic.

Monomacra laevicollis (Jacoby) 1897: 259 ( Lactica ); Blackwelder 1944-1957: 701; Takizawa 2003: 84. Distribution. St. Vincent; single island endemic.

Oedionychus sharpi Jacoby 1897: 272 ; Blackwelder 1944-1957: 712; Takizawa 2003: 87. Distribution. St. Vincent; single island endemic.

Omophoita aequinoctialis (Linnaeus) 1758: 374 ( Chrysomela ); Fleutiaux and Sallé 1890: 478 ( Homophoeta ); Jacoby 1897: 271 ( Homophoeta ); Blackwelder 1944-1957: 707; Blake 1931: 77; Bennett and Alam 1985: 29; Takizawa 2003: 87. = Omophoita abbreviata Fabricius 1798: 97 of Guadeloupe in Blackwelder 1944-1957: 7007. 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 ; Blackwelder 1944-1957: 707; Blake 1931: 77; 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 supposedly of Grenada, of Guadeloupe, of St. Vincent, and USA.

Physimerus smithi Jacoby 1897: 273 ; Blackwelder 1944-1957: 714; Takizawa 2003: 89. Distribution. Grenada, St. Vincent; Lesser Antilles endemic.

Syrphraea smithiana (Csiki) 1939: 256 ( Hermaeophaga ), replacement name; Takizawa 2003: 92. = Hermaeophaga smithi Jacoby 1897: 260 , not Jacoby 1891: 262. Distribution. Grenada, St. Vincent; Lesser Antilles endemic. Not Mexico or Guatemala.

Systena s-littera (Linnaeus) 1758: 373 ( Chrysomela ); Jacoby 1897: 262; Blackwelder 1944-1957: 696; Takizawa 2003: 92. Distribution. Dominica, Grenada, St. Vincent. Mexico to Panama to Argentina; Lesser Antilles and Latin America .