the African Eumolpinae site (Coleoptera Chrysomelidae)
new entries and updates in chronological order


12.01.2024

updated Eumolpinae checklists for all Nations

10.01.2024

Afroeurydemus (conradsi,corrosicollis,femoratus, luteoapicalis, sexnotatus); Microeurydemus (adrarensis); Microsyagrus (atriventris, maculosus); Paraivongius subg. Micromenius (auratus); Proliniscus (minutus); Syagrus

21.12.2022

Checklist Countries: Botswana, Cameroon, Central African Rep., Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Somalia, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Colasposoma (viridinotatum); Microeurydemus (fasciolatus); Syagrus; Zohrana (sansibarica)


22.11.2022

genus Pheloticus; genus Syagrus; genus Trichostola; synonymies and current names

02.02.2021

Chloropterus (mateui)

29.01.2021

Colasposoma (collare, langeri, suturale); Eryxia (baikiei); Lefevrea (fabianae); Pathius (daccordii)
31.01.2020

Afroeurydemus
(adustus adustus, adustus tanzaniae, adustus zambesianus, augusti, flavicans); Colasposoma (blandum, tinantae); Microsyagrus (marshalli); Phascus (pallidus australis); Pseudostola (ornata); Selmania (colasposomoides, hartmanni)


09.02.2019


Afroeurydemus
(annulipes, apicicornis, atricollis, atricolor, brunneopunctatus, cribricollis, diversepunctatus, fortesculptus, holasi, nigrosignatus, nodieri, pallidicolor, parvomaculatus, semicostatus, signatus, selmani, testaceicornis), Colasposoma, Ennodius (murrayi), Eryxia, Eurydemus, Lefevrea (rufa), Melindea (virescens), Microeurydemus (airensis), Microsyagrus (bingeri, discoidalis, favareli, immaculatus, gabonicus, madoni, punctaticollis, raffrayi, recticollis, testaceonotatus, trinotatus), Obelistes (curtipennis, flavus, nigrovittatus, bryanti, villiersi), Paraivongius subgen. Micromenius (ivoirensis, obscuripes), Paraivongius subgen. Paraivongius (bicolorimembris, bicoloripes, curtus, disconotatus, diversipennis, gabonicus, geniculatus, inapicalis, limbatus, minimus, rufometallicus, testaceipes, theresae, varicolor, viridecinctus, viridicollis, viridipes), Pathius (pici), Phascus (chopardi, instriatus), Sarum (monardi), Syagrus, Thysbina, Timentes (camerunensis)

 

04.02.2019

 

synonymies and current names

 

30.01.2019

 

Platycornia (saetosa)
19.05.2018

Berliozita
(borbonica, costatipennis), Lymidus (coquereli), Trichostola (alluaudi, aurata, cariei, collaris ssp. collaris, collaris ssp. reunionis, cribricollis, emmerezi, evops ssp. evops, fasciatipennis, femoralis, intermedia, ornata, pilula, striatipennis, tenuepunctata, thoracica, variegata), Vinsoneumolpus (puberulus)

4.02.2018


Checklist: São Thomé and Principe, Equatorial Guinea and Bioko, Congo

Afroeurydemus (variicolor), Cheiridella (principis, zambesiana), Dermoxanthus (fulvus, piceipes), Ennodius (murrayi), Gaberella (costata), Nerissus (femoralis, strigosus), Paraivongius subgen. Micromenius (chalceatus, concolor, feai, metallicus, nitidissimus, ruficeps, rufus, simplex), Paraivongius (s. str.) (apricus, brevicornis, castaneus, diversicolor, humeralis, inexspectatus, mimicus, viridescens), Rhembastus (piceus), Tanybria (spinipes)


15.12.2017

checklist Socotra Isl.

12.11.2017

checklist Canary Isl.


21.09.2017

Macrocoma (divisa, dubia, latifrons, obscuripes, oromiana, pelikani, splendens, splendidula splendidula, splendidula franzi, splendidula palmaensis)

14.07.2017

Colaspidea (oblonga)

25.05.2017

Scelodonta Westwood, 1837= Heteraspis Chevrolat, 1836: synonymy updated

15.12.2016

Syagrus (castellanus)
2.11.2016

Colasposoma (amplicolle, cyaneicorne, compactum, fulgidum, instabile, scutellare), Syagrus (calcaratus, morio)

25.09.2016

Colasposoma
(dahomeyanum, dentaticolle, holasi), Dermoxanthus (ruficolor), Ivongius (bohumilae, sulcatus), Microsyagrus (trinotatus, unicolor), Pagria (ruficeps), Paraivongius (diversicolor, viridescens), Pseudocolaspis (irregularis, longithorax, villiersi), Rhembastus (gracilipes, manjakatompensis, pauliani, perinetensis, remaudierei), Syagrus (chopardi, holasi), Sybriacosoma (tampolense)

24.09.2016

Afroeurydemus
(bipunctatus), Angoleumolpus (villiersi), Bastrhembus (pauliani), Casmena (camerunensis), Dicolectes (atripes), Eurydemus (airensis), Ivongius (altimontanus), Malegia (nigritarsis), Menius (nitidissimus), Microeurydemus (pallidus), Micromenius (concolor), Microsyagrus (annulipes, notatus), Pagria (brevenotata, dahomeyensis), Pseudivongius (lamottei), Rhembastus (ambohibyensis), Syagrus (ambrensis), Thysbina (caerulea)

18.05.2016

Afroeurydemus
(nubiensis), synonymy (Eurydemus geniculatus), Yemen

22.12.2015

Cleorina
(modiglianii)

15.05.2014


Angoleumolpus
(nigrovittatus); Callipta (oberthueri); Casmena (humeralis, subacuminata, unicolor); Colaspidea (algarvensis, confinis, dogueti, globosa, graeca, grossa, incerta, inflata, juengeri, maghrebina, maura, metallica, nitida, ovulum, pallidipes, proxima); Fidia subg. Lypesthinia (multidentata); Lahejia (schimperi); Macrocoma (carbonaria, crassipes, h. henoni, heydeni, lefevrei, l. leprieuri, millingeni); Malegia (alluaudi, atritarsis, contracta, maculata, nigritarsis, pallidipes); Melindea (limbata, robusta); Meniellus (maculicollis); Microsyagrus (trinotatus); Monardiella (subacuminata); Pachnephorus (laevicollis); Pagria (apicalis, dahomeyensis, fossulata, minuta, monardi, ruficeps, rufoscutellaris); Paraivongius (curtus, diversitarsis, ivoirensis, minimus, testaceipes, theresae, viridecinctus, viridescens, viridipes); Pseudocolaspis (diversesculpta, favareli, fulgidipes, lansbergi, irregularis); Rhembastus (apicalis, atomarius, atripennis, crampeli, discoidalis, impressicostatus, inapicalis, metalliconotatus, natalensis, ruficolor, rufocinctus, rufohumeralis); Scelodonta (albidovittata, albomaculata, bella, costata, costatipennis, humeralis, lineaticollis, monardi, spinipes, superba, theresae, trinotata); Syagrus (adrarensis, bicoloripes, concoloricornis, discoidalis, disconotatus, iridescens, madoni, rufipennis Pic, rufometallicus, signatus, trinotatus, viridicollis); Thysbina (gabonica); Zohrana (semiviridis)

18.03.2014

Angoleumolpus (curtipennis, flavus, villiersi); Casmena (bicoloripes, camerunensis, incerta, minuta, murrayi, nigricolor, subacuminata); Colasposoma (aeneicolor, angolense, crampeli, curtepilosum, cyaneicorne, dentaticolle, diversipenne, erythreanum, favareli, madoni, micheli, purpureicolor, purpureipenne, purpureocinctum, pustuliferum, reygnaulti, rufum, subnigrum, subpurpureum, varicolor); Dicolectes (aulicus, erythropus, fortis, impressiceps, rugulosus, semipurpureus); Eumolpopsis (dimidiatus); Euryope (hoehneli, humeralis, marginalis); Ferreirana (donckieri); Lahejia (schimperi); Lefevrea (bicoloripes, conradsi, cribricollis, curtipennis, dentatipes, nitida, ruficollis, subtestacea, testacea, unifasciata, uninotata, viridescens); Macrocoma (diversesignata, monardi, purpureonotata, usambarica); Malegia (striatula); Melindea (rufescens); Menius (cyaneipes, purpureus, ruficeps, rufus); Microeurydemus (bingeri, gabonicus, immaculatus, instriatus); Nerissus (hispidulus, latepubens, maculosus, uniformis); Platycorynus (compressicornis, cribratellus, micheli, raffrayi); Pseudocolaspis (bicoloripes, brevesetosa; crampeli, diversesculpta, impressipennis, metallica, minima, minuta, robustipes, semipurpurea Pic, subdentata, sulcatipennis); Semmiona (squameoguttata); Syagrus (atricollis, atricolor, atriventris, bicolorimembris, brunneopunctatus, conradsi, cribricollis, diversepunctatus, diversipennis, favareli, gabonicus, inhumeralis, madoni, nodieri, obscuripes, opacus, pallidicolor, quadrimaculatus, raffrayi, recticollis, semicostatus, testaceicornis, testaceonotatus)

04.01.2013


Afroeurydemus (striatipennis); Colaspidea (ovulum); Colasposoma subgen. Colasposoma (atrocyaneum, austerum, b. brevepilosum, b. maritimum, b. orientale, hajeki, purcharti, unicostatum); Colasposoma subgen. Falsonerissus (distinguendum, grande grande, grande insulare, socotranum, villosum); Erythraella (bicuspidata); Eurydemus (oculatus, raffrayi); Ivongius (inconstans); Macrocoma (bezdeki, niedobovae, hulai); Majungaeus (punctatosulcatus); Malegia (letourneuxi, obscurella); Paraivongius (bicolor, chalceatus, hypomelas, jacobyi, nigritarsis, plagiatus, tarsalis, viridiaeneus); Pheloticus (perroti); Rhembastus (atomarius, maculatus, natalensis, tibialis); Syagrus (corrosicollis, maculosus, semistriatus)

sections: photogalllery exoskeleton and internal morphology

10.12.2012


Afroeurydemus (alluaudi, bimaculatus, c. caliginosus); Colaspidea (grossa, inflata); Colasposoma (aemulum, amplicolle, bonvouloiri, chloris, fairmairei, fulgidum, fulvipes, jucundum, laticorne, ovulum, parvulum, pilosum, pubescens, scutellare, separatum, varicolor, velutinum); Euryope (angulicollis, consobrina, cruciata, hoehneli, marginalis); Ferreirana (dejeani); Pheloticus (bipartitus, dilutus, madagascariensis); Proliniscus (natalensis); Rhembastus (attelaboides, n. nanulus, tantillus); Syagrus (apicicornis, femoratus, limbatus, geniculatus, morio, nigrosignatus, rugiceps, sexnotatus, strigaticeps, varicolor); Thysbina (amata, femoralis); Zohrana (sansibaricus)

07.08.2012

Casmena (murrayi); Colaspidea(oblonga); Colasposoma (semipurpureum); Echtrusia (rhomboidea); Endroedymolpus (peringueyi); Eryxia (gracilipes, holosericea, virescens); Eulychius (Eulychioides) (sulcatus); Eurydemus (aeneus, illustris); Eurysthenes (pedestris); Ivongionymus (collaris); Ivongius (apicatus, elongatus, gendreaui, interruptus, minutus, opacicollis, parentalis, pauper, rudis, subrectus, versatilis mansus, vetulus); Lucignolo (capensis); Macrocoma (heydeni, leprieuri leprieuri); Mahakirya (squamosa); Majungaeus (fulvitarsis, striatus); Melindea (abyssinica); Nerissus (affinis, femoralis, hispidulus, strigosus); Obelistes (varians); Odontionopa (chloris, discolor); Pagria (liturata, suturalis, varians); Pallena (chapuisi); Phascus (fulvus, pallidus); Pheloticus (rugicollis); Pseudocolaspis (brachiata, gracilipes, hottentota, insignis, variegata); Rhembastus (apicicornis, imitans); Scelodonta (aurosignata, bidentata, corrugata, impressipennis, maculosa, raffrayi, strigata, viridula); Scotosus (aerugineus, coerulans, virens); Semmiona (squamulosa); Sybriacus (parvulus); Trichostola (magnicollis)

05.07.2012

Ambohitsitondrona (micheli); Bastrhembus (clavicornis); Brachymolpus (cuprarius); Colasposoma (madagassum); Eurydemus (carbonarius, diadematus marianus, jodasi, micheli, ophthalmicus); Ivongius (apicatus, catalai, gendreaui, latissimus, opacicollis, pauper, politus, rudis, subrectus, versatilis mansus); Lebisiella (consimilis, macrophthalma, ornata); Majungaeus (coeruleus, fenerivensis, fulvitarsis laetabilis, fulvitarsis reticulatus, lambomakandrensis); Pheloticus (achardi boreella, achardi tabens, allotrophicus, diversicornis); Pseudostola (fulvida, tuberculicollis); Rhembastus (androyensis, chatanayi, colasi, hereditarius, lebisi, mandritsanensis, micheli, nanulus nossibeanus, pan, parioides, pensistus, quadriplagiatus, stilpnus, subangulatus, tonsilis, unicostulatus); Rhembivongius (minor, piceus); Sahantaha (dilaticornis); Sphaerostola (rufopicea); Syagrus (lebisi, pullatus, vadoni); Sybriacosoma (ornatum); Sybriacus (picipes); Syagrus (quartus, sextus, strangulatus nandihizinae); Vadoniella (excelsa)

25.06.2012

Arsoa (aranea
, longimana), Chloropterus (bimaculatus); Colaspidea (metallica); Colasposoma (cyaneocupreum, homolamprum, laticorne, mediocre, perrieri, rutilans, semiasperum, subcostatum, sublaeve); Didalsus (latesulcatus); Eurydemus (subimpressus); Ivongius (interruptus); Lefevrea (kibonotensis); Macrocoma (henoni, janthina, minutula, meruensis, nitidipennis, soror, turbata); Majungaeus (punctatosulcatus); Mecistes (chapuisi); Menius (simplex); Platycorynus (compressicornis); Pseudabirus (brevis, subcylindricus); Pseudocolaspis (metallica, pachnephora); Pseudostola (grandis, perrieri); Rhembastus (punctatosulcatus); Scelodonta (inaequalis); Syagrus (allochromus, basipennis, secundus); Sybriacosoma (berlandi, perrieri)

16.03.2012

new section Historical outline

02.03.2012


new section Photogallery (internal morphology); new entries in Photogallery (exoscheleton).
Colasposoma (rutilans); Macrocoma (fuscoaenea); Odontiomorpha (spinipennis)

23.09.2011

Badenis (parvula); Colaspidea (metallica metallica); Colasposoma (crenulatum crenulatum); Dermoxanthus (alternans); Ennodius (orientalis); Ivongionymus (coloratus); Macrocoma (femoralis, meruensis, mosambica, nitidipennis, soror, turbata, voeltzkowi); Pachnephorus (conspersus, crocodilinus, episternalis, gerstaeckeri, uhligi); Paraivongius (micans); Phascus (bicolor, occidentalis); Platycorynus (limbatus, marginalis marginalis, raffrayi); Pseudocolaspis (chrysites, laeta, lindneri, mombonensis, nobilis, obscura, sericea, tibialis); Thysbina (rufipes); Trichostola (grossa)

15.09.2011

Colasposoma (ardens, bennigseni, blandum, coffeae, compactum, costatum, crenulatum karibaense, ertli, flavipes, geniculatum, gloriosum, haefligeri, instabile, madagassum, monticola, perlatum, posticum, rutilans rutilans, sansibaricum, subcostatum, sumptuosum), Dicolectes (fortis, minor), Eryxia (holosericea), Majungaeus (striatus, suturalis), Nerissus (carnapi, conformis, femoralis, globulatus, leucocyclus), Paraivongius (rufipes), Rhembastus (simoni, usambaricus, variabilis, xanthocnemis), Rhyparida (striola), Thysbina (antiqua, bicostata, fallax, femoralis), Uhehlia (goetzei, pardalis)

01.09.2011
30.08.2011


Eulychius
(subviolaceus), Ivongius (signatus), Lefevrea (angolensis, kibonotensis), Nossioecus (lefevrei), Obelistes (acutangulus, fuscitarsis), Pagria (concinna, suturalis), Paraivongius (ruandicus), Pathius (major, pallidus), Rhyparidula (aciculata), Scelodonta (sansibarica, vicina, vitticollis), Syagrus (q. quintus), Sybriacosoma (fulvicorne), Sybriacus (lefevrei), Zohrana (puncticollis, substriatus)

updated checklist: Ghana, Guinea, Ivory Coast

03.06.2011

Afroeurydemus (maculipennis, marginatus), Bechyneia (spinosa), Dicolectes (clavareaui, spinicollis), Endoschyrus (retifera), Ennodius (murrayi), Eryxia (confusa, holosericea, major, socotrana), Eurysthenes (balyi), Lefevrea (ivoirensis), Macetes (albicans), Macrocoma (bequaerti, eriophora, vanstraeleni, verschureni, viridis), Massartia (irregularis), Menius (lacordairei), Pallena (tibialis), Paraivongius (bayeri, interstitialis), Pathius (vulgaris), Pausiris (arachnoides, rotundicollis, strigicollis), Phascus (lineatocollis), Platycorynus (azureus, compressicornis, dejeani, kivuensis, limbatus congoensis, limbatus limbatus, marginalis luluensis, marginalis marginalis, verschureni), Pseudocolaspis (albertiana, cynoides, gangalaensis, minutuloides, wittei), Rhembastus (perarmatus), Scelodonta (quadrifossulata), Semmiona (squamulosa), Syagrus (calcaratus, rufipennis), Tanybria (bipilis, kivuensis, timiliatha), Trichostola (fuscitarsis), Zohrana (fasciolatus)

23.05.2011

Casmena (calva, congoensis, ghesquierei, gracilis, murrayi, schoutedeni, sericea), Dermoxanthus (camerunensis, clavareaui, kapiriensis, maynei), Diconerissus (lepersonnae), Lefevrea (andrewi, magna, margareta, moyoensis, pilosa, schoutedeni, troupini, tunguensis, wittei), Monardiella (gerardi), Nerissus (rugosus, saegeri, tuberculatus uelensis), Pachnephorus (fasciatus), Pausiris (arachnoides, rotundicollis), Phascus (bredoi, cruciatus, denisoffi, martini, multisulcatus, occidentalis, pilosus, reticulaticollis, ruandanus, shoemakeri, suturalis), Pseudocolaspis (cupreofemorata overlaeti, cyanella, garambaensis, gibbicollis, inimvuaensis, intermedia, isoensis, mabangaensis, maynei, motoensis, pseudosetulosa, pygmaea, rufitarsis, saegeri, splendens, uelensis, utukuruensis, vanderijsti), Scelodonta (albidovittata ruandensis, carinata, cuprea, maculicollis, parcepilosa, wittei), Semmiona (squamulosa), Uhehlia (nerissidioides)

17.05.2011


Colasposoma
(a. aeneoviolaceum, aeneoviolaceum elisabethae, akaense, auripes kafakumbae, chloris, colmanti, curvipes, fairmairei fairmairei, fairmairei katangense, kindaense, hirsutum, luluense, macrocnemis, overlaeti, prasinum, semipurpureum, subaureum, tinantae, vedyi, wittei), Euryope (vanderijsti), Eurysthenes (balyi), Lefevrea (ancora, annae, leroyi, longelytrata, maynei, megacephala, milnei, nigriceps, puncticollis, rotundata, scutellaris), Obelistes (clavareaui, intermedius, leplaei, luluensis, maynei, schoutedeni, trivittatus, variabilis), Pseudabirus (rufescens), Sybriacosoma (ignitum, ornatum, rufipes)

05.05.2011

Mandollia
(isoensis), Massartia (albertianus, colasposomoides, minimus, nigritus, schoutedeni), Melindea (denticrus), Paraivongius (akaensis, armatus, bagbelensis, bayeri, bequaerti, demoulinensis, duruensis, elisabethanus, fulvus, garambaensis, maynei, milliaui,motoensis, mouyassuensis, pidigalaensis, pseudobscurellus, pseudoparvulus, rotundatus, rubricollis,saegeri, scapularis, wittei), Pathius (tanganikanus), Rhembastus (apicicollis, bipunctatus, caeruleipennis, chatanayi, crassus, laticollis, lebisi, mandolloides, multatitius, niger, persimilis), Sarum (pergeminatus), Trichostola (grandis)

30.04.2011

Eurydemus
(E. lineatocollis, E. micheli, E. richardi, E. villiersi), Ivongius (basilewskyi), Meniellus (maculicollis), Menius (M. mombassanus, M. viridicupreus), Microsyagrus (M. bingervillensis, M. saegeri, M. variabilis), Pagria (P. mahembensis, P. nigrosuturalis), Paraivongius (P. collarti, P. flavimanus scheitzae, P. ruwenzoricus), Pheloticus (P. diversicornis, P. lefevrei), Proliniscus (P. garambaensis, P. viridis), Sarum (baerti), Syagrus (perpuncticollis)

26.04.2011

Afroeurydemus
(23 species), Pagria (P. varians, P. maynei, P. ruwenzoriensis), Eurydemus (congoensis)