New and little known species of Eumolpinae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) from Northern Vietnam
Author
Romantsov, Pavel V.
Author
Moseyko, Alexey G.
text
Zootaxa
2019
2019-05-23
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journal article
26708
10.11646/zootaxa.4609.2.7
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1175-5326
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Parascela
Baly, 1878
: 252
The small genus
Parascela
includes three species from Northeastern
India
,
China
, and
Vietnam
:
P. cribrata
Schaufuus, 1871
,
P. hirsuta
Jacoby, 1908
, and
P. tuberosa
Tan & Wang, 1983
. When the genus was established as monotypical for
P. cribrata
, it was considered a member of the tribe
Adoxini
because of the presence of the setae dorsally. Later it became clear that presence of the setae is not a very important character to separate the tribes of
Eumolpinae
, and
Parascela
was placed near
Basilepta
in the tribe
Typophorini (
Moseyko & Sprecher-Uebersax, 2010
)
. In fact, taking into consideration the species added later, this genus has unclear differences from
Basilepta
, concerning the presence of setae and/or surface structures on the pronotum and elytra, and the absence of regular puncture rows on elytra. Probably it can even be considered a species group within
Basilepta
. In this study, we still consider it as a separate genus, placing in it all the species that have densely punctured pronotum with weak lateral carinae and elytra covered with setae and/or rugose.