Revision of Menippus (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae) of Taiwan and Menippus dimidiaticornis species group with a new generic synonymy Author Lee, Chi-Feng Author Bezdĕk, Jan Author Suenaga, Haruki text Zootaxa 2012 2012-08-17 3427 1 16 journal article 10.11646/zootaxa.3427.1.1 97ad468b-42f8-40b3-9494-173836944acb 1175-5326 210575 Genus Menippus Clark Menippus Clark, 1864: 257 ( type species: Menippus cynicus Clark, 1864 ). Issikia Chûjô, 1961: 87 ( type species: Galeruca ( Issikia ) issikii Chûjô, 1961 ). New Synonym Notes. Reid and Nally (2008) treated Menippus in detail. The degree of closure of the procoxal cavity and the marginal elytral ridges—the characters which are used to separate Menippus from Issikia —are variable between species of Menippus . Because of great similarity of male and female genitalic morphology between Issikia and Menippus , the genus Issikia has been reduced to a junior synonym of Menippus .